LV's boggart

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94904

> Mo wrote:
> Why fight a boggart when you can just AK it?  
> 
> However, I too am curious what form would LV's boggart
> take. LV doesn't really fear anything except love. 
> How can love take a form?  
> 
> 
> Lynette responded:
> Would it appear as his dead Mother?
> 
> But, he doesn't fear love - just don't understand it and 
> could be hurt by it.  He fears death and DD.

Carol tries to answer both posts at once:
I agree that LV doesn't fear love. As I said in an earlier post, it's
his own death he fears, so if his boggart took that form rather than
DD's, it would no doubt appear as his own corpse, not his mother's.

But *can* you AK a boggart, as Mo suggests? Does it have a life in the
sense that a human being does? I suppose a sufficiently cold-blooded
person could AK a cat or a snake (Nagini, anyone?) but a boggart? Most
wizards, of course, couldn't do an AK and wouldn't try it even on a
boggart because of the evil and corrupting nature of the spell itself,
but most wizards also have enough of a sense of humor to ridicule a
boggart into oblivion. 

I suppose even LV could find some sinister way to make a DD boggart
laughable and consequently destroy it, but *would* he have to resort
to an AK to destroy the boggart if it represented his own death? And
if so, would an AK destroy it? I'm not at all sure it would.

Carol