Another death? (in HBP)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115800


Brodeur wrote:
> 
> Boggarts are not future detectors. They are simply figures that turn
into your worst fears and nightmares. I would not take it to
seriously, do you really expect Snape to begin to wear Neville's
grandmother's clothes? Or see a spider  with roller skates on?
> 

But there's a difference here. Molly's fear is not ridiculous, nor can
it be made ridiculous. Lupin changes the boggart to his own moon
(which in turn can't be ridiculed because it's a valid fear) and sort
of sweeps it away. Likewise, Harry's Dementor boggart can't be made
ridiculous. It, too, is a valid fear and is only controlled by Lupin's
turning it into his own boggart. (There's a cockroach in there
somewhere, but I've never figured out how it fits in.)

Neville is going to have to get over his fear of Snape and face his
real fear, his true boggart, if you will, Bellatrix Lestrange. (I
wouldn't be surprised if Snape expected her--or at any rate, a DE--to
be Neville's boggart and in his snarky way was warning Lupin of that
possibility, but I know no one agrees with me on this.) Ron, too,
needs to overcome his fear of spiders (and will nod doubt have to
confront Aragog at some future point) and concentrate on VW2. Those
boggarts, like Parvati's mummy, reflect childhood fears of mean
teachers, monsters in the closet, creepy-crawly creatures. But
Dementors and monthly bouts of insanity caused by being a werewolf and
your teenage children's possible deaths in a coming war are all valid
fears in the WW, and the last is a valid fear in the RW as well.

Unlike the mummies and creeping hands and so forth that we saw in
Lupin's class, Harry's and Lupin's boggarts (or rather, the real fears
they represent) have already played an important role in the books and
may do so again. I think Molly's very traumatic and prolonged ordeal
with her boggart is also foreshadowing. If not, why include the
incident? It certainly wasn't integral to the plot of OoP.

Watch out for the clock in her living room.

Carol