Lupin's resentment : An inside to Snape's resentment

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 94406

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> Meanwhile Lupin is thrown a curve. The boggart is not a DE but a
> professor, and he has no choice but to help Neville find a way to 
make
> his boggart ridiculous. It would have been better for staff 
relations
> to let him use his grandmother instead, but Lupin probably didn't 
want
> to undermine Neville's relationship with his grandmother, either.

One thing that I think keeps getting missed is that "Neville's 
afraid of what Neville's afraid." I don't think anyone can convince 
Neville (or anyone) to be less afraid of X and more afraid of Y.

Neville's boggart takes the shape--for whatever reason--of Snape and 
not his Gran, not the Lestranges, not LV. 

It is what it is.

-Joe in SoFla