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

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Carol:
> I'm not sure if this is a valid analogy. I'm just trying  to 
> understand how Neville's boggart could possibly be Snape, or how  
> threatening to poison a toad could possibly be compared with 
>  really torturing your parents into insanity.


SSSusan:
Maybe it's  as simple as what Neville can remember?  He was about a  
year-and-a-half old when his parents were attacked by the DEs.  He  
will not really have a conscious recollection of that.  But Snape is  
here & now, and the embarrassment, humiliation and anxiety he has  
felt around Snape is fresh & current.

Siriusly Snapey  Susan


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Chancie:
 
I agree with SSS, because Nevile wouldn't have remembered that.
And also as she said the pain Snape has caused him is/was on
going, and relived everyday.  Also at this time, Belatrix and co.  were
still in Azkaban, and he probably didn't see them as anything to  fear.
Besides, Harry's greatest fear wasn't Voldemort, who killed his  parents,
and tried to kill him 3 times up until then (3 if you include Tom  Riddle
in CoS) but his greatest fear was the Dementor's.  




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