Voldemort's Boggart - My theory

[vmonte]

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SSSusan wrote:
This certainly makes SENSE -- that is, that the way a Boggart works
is by some mechanism similar to Legilimency. But still, I'm
wondering whether we can make this assumptive leap. It may be
something *similar* to the effect of Legilimency, but IS it actually
a form of Legilimency? And even if it is something related, do we
know that Occlumency would work to stop it?

I'm not convinced it works that way. In fact, I think a
Boggart "works" on everyone it "sees." (Heck, we don't even know
that it DIDN'T turn into whatever Moody's boggarts always turn into,
do we? [Away from books -- could be wrong!]) I'm one of those who
wonders whether Lupin doesn't have some skill in Legilimency, based
upon those looks he's sometimes given and the feeling Harry's gotten
more than once that Lupin was reading his mind. Yet Boggarts do take
a shape for Lupin.

So, while you could be right -- and I think it's an excellent note of
the similarity between how a Boggart works & how Legilimency works --
I'm not quite convinced.

For me the interesting question is, assuming you're wrong and that
wizards or witches skilled at Occlumency *do* still see their
greatest fear, WHAT WOULD VOLDY SEE?

Would he see DD?
Would he see some manifestation of death?
Would he see Harry?

vmonte responds:
I agree with SSSusan.  I think that a Boggart will work on everyone 
(except on those that do not have fears--it's a small number of 
people for sure). 

Voldemort and his DEs are definitely a group of people with many 
fears! And I don't think that legilimency skills will block a Boggart 
from shape-shifting.

If anyone gets to see a Boggart in their true form it will eventually 
be Harry, who may overcome his fears in the end.

vmonte