Boggarts - a little side-aspect

[Marianne S.]

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> Amiable Dorsai wrote:
> 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.
> 

Marianne S:
I was thinking the same thing, especially after reading in HBP how Harry was 
writing his Dementor essay for Snape, knowing that he and Snape disagree
on the best way to repel Dementors. It would not surprise me if the Snape
way has to do more with Occlumency than thinking of a Happy Memory. Pointing
out the shape of the Lestranges and the other Death Eaters that escaped with
them, and comparing them to Sirius, is more evidence that this could be fact.