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

[Tonya Minton]

No: HPFGUIDX 84094

	> 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?
	
	Annemehr
	
	 Now Tonya again:
	 
	Oh Thanks for explaining that!!  I thought I missed something
and I did!!  feeling much better now!!  
	 
	Tonya 



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