Lupin and Boggart+Legilimency

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 113743

> > Pippin:
> > But he does allow Neville to destroy a Boggart. "Forward Neville, 
> > and finish him off.'" 
> 
> Carol:
> Which leads me to wonder how he taught his other third-year students
> (the Slytherins, Ravenclaws, and Hufflepuffs) to deal with boggarts,
> unless their classes came before the Gryffindors'. And what about 
the
> students in other years? Did he teach them the same curriculum he
> taught the third-years? If so, how did they learn to banish boggarts
> if Neville had finished the boggart off?

Finwitch:

I'm not so sure he really did make a mistake with it. Remember how 
worried he was that the Boggart might take the form of Voldemort with 
Harry and possibly also with Hermione? Can't let it hang around the 
castle therefore, now can you? Also, I'm not so sure that a 
practical "beat the boggart"-lesson wasn't a part of the original 
plan. At least, not during the first lesson. There just happened to 
be one to get rid of.

(still, Lupin obviously *had* hunted down another boggart for Harry 
to practice his Patronus on - or maybe he already had that one to 
begin with? A pet boggart in a box, you know?)

And um - Gryffindors are noted for bravery, and bravery is a 
requirement to face down a boggart, so in a way, Gryffindors ARE more 
ready to face a boggart than i.e. Slytherins. Beating a Boggart sort 
of belongs to Gryffindor agenda!

Finwitch