[HPforGrownups] Harry banishes a boggart, then is asked to conjure a Patronus?

[danielle dassero]

No: HPFGUIDX 74253

A boggart can only be gotten rid by the riddikklus
spell. In GOF Harry tries a patronus charm on a
boggart, because he thought it was a real dementor,
the dementor boggart stumbled. So when 
Harry is told that he would have to get rid of a
boggart for his practical DADA, he used the
riddikkulus spell. Had he used a patronus charm, he
most likely would have failed.
Danielle
--- Liz Perpetua <ottofied at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the OWL chapter of OoP, Harry banishes a boggart
> and then is asked by an 
> OWL examiner (Professor Tofty?) to conjure a
> Patronus for an extra bonus 
> point, which he does without difficulty.  But, if
> Harry had just banished a 
> boggart, and assuming that he is still most afraid
> of a dementor, wouldn't 
> the boggart have manifested as a dementor, and thus,
> wouldn't Harry have 
> just demonstrated the Patronus charm?  Or, would he
> have used "Riddikkulus" 
> (sp.) despite whatever the boggart became?  JKR
> doesn't state in canon what 
> Harry's boggart turns into, so what do you think he
> is most afraid of now? 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Liz
> 
>
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