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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 94418

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

> 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.

I'm not sure this is true.  
***
Harry thought....What scared him most in the world?
His first thought was Lord Voldemort -- a Voldemort returned to 
full strength. But before he had even begun to plan  a 
counterattack on a boggart-Voldemort, a horrible image came 
floating to the surface of his mind.
***
PoA ch 7

Harry  does have more than one fear in his mind, and it isn't the 
first one that is the scariest. I think part of boggart-fighting 
technique is to imagine  the form that you expect the boggart to 
take in your conscious mind before you approach it. At any rate, 
Lupin instructs the class to do this, and we don't hear anyone 
complaining that the boggart took a form they didn't expect. 

I think that would explain what happened to poor Molly in OOP. 
She must have dealt with boggarts many times in the past and 
she thought she knew what form the boggart would take. She 
neglected to bring a clear image of her  fear to the surface of her 
mind.  Left to its own devices, the boggart pulled the images of 
her dead children from her subconscious. I am sure that she 
wouldn't have challenged the boggart if she *knew* 
 what she was going to see... how would you make the 
dead bodies of your children funny? Eurrgh!

Pippin