Boggarts - a little side-aspect

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 144480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, literature_Caro
<literature_Caro at w...> wrote:
>
> Relistening POA I started wondering whether a boggart is something
> like a hybirdization of legillimency and a dementor: he is trying to
> make you most scared AND he is doing this by reading in your mind what
> that thing it needs to turn into would be.
> Could it therefore be that 1. occlumency would be a equal good
> protection from it than the ridiculus-spell and 2. the latter is some
> sort of preparing step to acquire occlumency?
> If so, would there be a shaped boggart if it faced Snape?

Funny you should bring this up.  I was thinking about whether
Occlumency would help protect you from Dementors, and it occured to me
that that might explain why the Lestranges and the other Death Eaters
who were sprung from Azkaban were in such good shape.  Bella's quite
mad, yes, but she can function, and she seems better off than Sirius
was after spending at least a year more than he did in Azkaban,

Now if Occlumency can protect you from Dementors, it seems likely that
it would offer some help with boggarts.

Amiable Dorsai