[HPforGrownups] Re: Neville and stuff (Was: In Defense of Snape)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 123785

--- justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If I were Neville, my boggart would be the DEs who Crucio'd my 
> parents. Maybe as of PoA, he hasn't allowed that fear to take 
> shape in his conscious mind yet.... I think that
> maybe he transferred his fear of his formidable (but nevertheless
> DD-supporting) grandmother onto Snape, making a minor fear into a
> major one because the major one (Bellatrix and friends) is
> incomprehensibly terrifying?
>

Well, it's a pretty traumatic thing to admit that you're afraid of
your Gran.  Snape makes a suitable substitute, and has the added
bonus, if you will, of not being a relative or having done nice
things for him as a small child.

Also I suspect that young Neville doesn't know what a DE looks/ed
like and that in his young mind a DE looks rather like scary Snape. 
So it all kind of comes together in one image for him.

Magda


		
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