Hermione's boggart (Was: Lupin's sense of humor (was:Re: TBAY: Evil! McGonagall

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> Pippen said
> snip************************
> Hermione's come face to face with a basilisk, 
> after all.
> Snip **************************
>  
> Now Tonya
> I don't remember Hermione's being a basilisk.  I remember at the end of
> the school year when she is taking her DADA test her boggart is
> Professor McGonagall.  I just finished that book for the umpteen time so
> it is still fresh, so could you point me to canon on her boggart being a
> basilisk??  Thanks!!

Annemehr:
Hermione's boggart was never a basilisk.  What Pippin is referring to
is that Hermione never faced the boggart in Lupin's first lesson. 
Perhaps Lupin didn't want her to because he was afraid it would turn
into a basilisk for her (as she was petrified by one only a few months
before), and he thought that would frighten the class to much.  If
this is indeed the reason, then Lupin guessed wrong about both
Hermione's and Harry's boggarts -- hey, Pippin, can you turn that into
something evil? <g>

Or --- if a boggart!dementor makes Harry hear his Mum's murder, what
would a boggart!basilisk do?

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