Boggart Snape (was:Re: Snape Wars vs Ship Wars...)

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 144704

> Betsy Hp:
<SNIP>
It's that what Neville is taught in the boggart 
> scene is not only wrong, if Snape is ESE or OFH, it's down right 
> dangerous.  Because while it's good to teach children to laugh at 
> their relatively empty fears, or fears that can't really hurt 
them, 
> you don't teach a child to laugh at something that *should* scare 
> them. <SNIP>

Alla:


Do you doubt that JKR intends Voldemort to be really dangerous then?

"Why are you worrying about

you-know-who?

You should be worrying about 

u-no-poo

The constipation sensation that gripping the nation!" - HBP, p.116



Betsy Hp:
> Because if Snape does turn out to be ESE or OFH, if it turns 
> out he really *was* a danger to Neville, rather than a schoolboy 
> fear, Neville didn't triumph in the boggart scene, he became 
> dangerously and wrongly overconfident.


Alla:

I disagree. Laughter CAN help defeat real Evil, IMO - as in 
developing confidence to learn other thins necessary for the real 
win. 

JMO,

Alla