Not letting Harry and Hermione face the boggart was unfair (was: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: HOW many classmates?)

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Elihu wrote:
> 
> This would make sense if, in fact, each student only faced the 
Boggart once. However, allowing Neville face the Boggart twice, while 
2 students didn't face it at all, is unfair to those 2 students. If, 
in fact, there were 29 chances to face the Boggart and 30 students, 
the most fair way to devide it up would be that 1 doesn't face the 
Boggart at all, and each of the others faces it once.



Lupin sort of evened things out, but I don't think he was concerned 
about fair. He "says" he thought Harry would bring up LV and that 
would be too scary for the class. (Is this a time to believe or to 
not believe a character?)  But we aren't told why he skipped 
Hermione.  If I recall, she will fail the Boggart portion of the DADA 
test. He did however, give Harry and Hermione points for their 
participation in class.   

Giving Neville an extra turn works out alright as a sort of payback 
for being taunted by Snape at the beginning.

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