[HPforGrownups] Boggart Snape was Re: Snape in the Shrieking Shack (was re:time-turning)

Magda Grantwich mgrantwich at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 15 20:45:39 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 113071

> Potioncat:
> 
> Snape set himself up for the situation in the Boggart class.  Once 
> upon a time we discussed this and offered a challenge to come up 
> with a better solution for Neville to use on Boggart!Snape.  I 
> thought of a few worse ones, but no one came up with anything 
> better. You have to laugh to defeat a Boggart.
> 
> But, we're told Snape was even worse to the students after that.  
> And it seems reasonable...he's bent out of shape at being laughed 
> at.  But, what if there was something else going on that made him 
> uspset and Harry thought it was the Boggart class? Ideas, anyone?
>

I don't know if it's insecurity but if I were Snape I'd be a little
miffed that Lupin was yanking my chain when:

1.  I was making the Wolfsbane Potion that allowed Lupin to transform
safely and with a minimum of stress once a month;

2.  I was unwillingly keeping the fact of Lupin's lycanthropy from my
students and my students' parents;

3.  I had good reason (backed up by personal experience) to doubt
that Lupin was mature enough to handle responsibility (i.e., the
do-nothing prefect from the OOTP Pensieve scene).

Magda



		
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