speculations on the Boggart

[Susana da Cunha]

No: HPFGUIDX 112074

Neha S. wrote:
"In PoA, Professor Lupin teaches his students that nobody knows
what a Boggart looks like in it's true form? When, in the OotP
Headquarters, Mrs. Weasley asks Mad-Eye Moody to look through the
ceiling and confirm the presence of a Boggart in the drawer upstairs
and Moody looks up, what exactly is it that he sees? Does he see
what he fears most or does he see what a Boggart looks by itself?"
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Yes, I noticed it too. It made me assume Moody's eye was very rare. When
Harry looks at a Boggart but someone else is standing closer to it he doesn'
t see a Dementor but what the other person most fears. That means the
Boggart only transforms when someone is close. Moody must have seen the
Boggart in its true form and not for the first time either, because he
recognized it. I felt outraged that no one in the room was curious enough to
ask him what it looked like.

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Neha S. wrote:
"Also, if somebody is scared of seeing their own fear to such an
extent as to fear it more than the (what they) fear itself, would
they see the Boggart in it's true form?"
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I'm not sure I understand your question. If you're asking what if a person
fears fear it self more than anything, Lupin answered that in PoA. He said
the fact Harry's Boggart turns into a Dementor suggests what Harry fears
most is fear it self. It seems to me Harry fears to loose the ability of
happiness. Dementors don't cause fear but the lost of hope. Someone who
fears fear doesn't see something that impersonates fear - a Boggart - but
something that causes fear to take over their emotions.

But if you're asking what if a person fears most finding out what his fears
are...


Susana
(Probably as confused as the Boggart would be)