Boggarts - a little side-aspect

[Lyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 144572

Caro <literature_Caro at web.de> wrote:
> I started wondering whether a boggart is something like a 
> hybridization 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?


My small thought on this is I wonder if this is why Snape left 
the room when Lupin and the class came in to practice with that 
boggart - because there was the risk that the boggart would round 
on him (Snape) and not take a form, therefore leaving everyone 
very confused and slightly suspicious.
   
  -lyn