What's wrong with being bad ?

[starkyld]

No: HPFGUIDX 102066

> > Alla:
> > He is terrified most in the world of his Professor. If those are not 
> > he effects of the abuse, I truly don't know what is.  

> Kneasy:
> Laughable. 
> He chose Snape because he didn't want the other kids to know about 
> his parents.
> If he'd said Voldy or Bella everybody would have wanted to know why.

I must respectfully disagree.

Neville didn't actually get any choice as to what form his boggart would take.  He did say 
that Snape scared him more than anything else in the world, to be sure, but it wasn't his 
statement that determined the boggart's form.  It was the fear itself.

Had Neville feared Voldemort or Bellatrix more, then the boggart would have taken that 
form instead, regardless of what he'd said in front of his classmates.

Not that Neville was in any way inclined to tell his classmates about his family background, 
mind you...

--Bria (who is new and hoping that she just properly followed posting protocol)