Voldemort's Boggart - My theory

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Subhash Sane <crownless_aragorn at y...> wrote:
> Hello to all of you. I was surfing the mugglenet and found that 
one of the questions that was selected in the Ask JKR contest was- 
What would Boggart turn into if he sees Voldemort? 
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>  Now comes the question of wizards like Voldemort, Dumbledore, and 
Snape who have mastered Occlumency. If they see a Boggart, they can 
easily close their minds to him and hence Boggart is confused and is 
forced to take no shape at all. Hence, Boggart won't take any shape 
when he will see Voldemort or Dumbledore or Snape. 


**Marcela now: While I like to agree with you Occlumency and Boggart 
theory, it doesn't in reality answer to the question of "what's 
Voldemort's boggart?", i.e. boggart=fear.  Your theory just tells us 
that Voldy can block the boggart's Legilimency skills.

This is what I think Voldy fears most, (this is copy of what I 
answered in a friend's LJ yesterday, BTW):

- Harry's boggart was a Dementor, not Voldie. Why? Because Harry's 
worst fear is -and we have lots of canon on this- not to die or be 
killed, but to be sucked into 'Darkness', which is what Dementors 
represent. Every time Voldie performs a Crucio, his head explodes 
because of Voldie's feelings of cruel sadism.

- Voldie might fear Dumbledore, or he might despise/hate Harry, but 
he "faced" them, he wasn't completely paralized by them. In the 
Priori Incantatem chapter in GoF, Voldie was really scared of the 
Phoenix song and all it brought up (the shadows), which produced 
exactly the opposite in Harry: he felt Hope coming to the rescue.

I think that Voldie's boggart might be something related to 
Love/Hope/Goodness. Voldie had to flee Harry's body when this one 
felt so strongly for Sirius. Think of that possession scene: Harry 
had already wished that DD killed him, he wanted things to end... 
but Voldie remained in him, until Harry thought of Sirius and 
wanting to be with him because of his love for him... So, I'd say 
that Voldie is very, very scared of this feeling.

Now, as for the Boggart's shape... I dunno... maybe a Phoenix?

Marcela