[HPforGrownups] Re: OotP Moody's magical eye and the boggart..

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 70586

l3al3y_Doll_3 wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>I like to think of boggarts as sort of quantum-mechanical 
>>beasties.  That is, until observed, they have no form at all, 
>>just as a quantum-mechanical particle has no position until 
>>observed.  What did Moody see, then?  Perhaps the thing he fears 
>>is something that couldn't possibly be inside a piece of 
>>furniture.  If Lupin had a magical eye, and he saw the moon 
>>inside a wardrobe, it would be a pretty safe bet that it wasn't 
>>really the moon.
>  
> I see what you're saying, and I'm all for it, but I keep going back 
> to my previous questions. Wouldn't the Boggart need to be in the 
> presence of the person in order to feel their essence to transform 
> into their worst fear? 

I don't think we have enough information to answer that question 
definitively.

> If not then what Lupin said in PoA doesn't 
> hold up. 

Perhaps he just didn't think of Moody's eye; it may be unique, 
and Moody may not ever have mentioned what a boggart looks like 
to him.