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

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No: HPFGUIDX 144714

Betsy Hp wrote:
"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>


CH3ed:
I don't think the ridikulus curse is there to teach the children to 
not be afraid of their phobia real or imagined, but rather to teach 
them how to use laughter (or looking at the brighter side) to cope 
with their fear. One has to be able to keep quite a cool head (not 
go completely hysterical like Hermione did at her DADA exam in Book 
3) to be able to think up a way to make the materialization of one's 
worst fear look funny and to be able to focus on that instead of the 
boggart in order to work the ridikulus curse... especially in the 
field where your worst fear can pop up on you unannouced.


Betsy HP wrote:
"When Harry confronted his boggart in the maze in GoF, he imagined 
the dementor tripping and that got rid of the boggart. But that 
would not help him out with an actual dementor. So Lupin taught him 
how to do a Patronus. Something that doesn't deter a boggart, but 
does stop a dementor."


CH3ed:
Actually Harry didn't imagine the dementor-boggart tripping. He 
didn't know it was a boggart at all and sent a patronus at it. The 
dementor-boggart then really tripped trying to get away from Harry's 
patronus, which was the thing that made Harry realized that the 
thing was a boggart rather than a real dementor. He then did a 
perfect ridikulus to get rid of the boggart (though we aren't told 
what Harry thought up to make the dementor-boggart look ridikulus or 
seem so funny the thing just blew to pieces.... that's gotta be 
something seriously funny!).

CH3ed  :O)