Voldemort's Boggart - My theory

[saraquel_omphale]

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>Subhash wrote:
>Let's see what Boggart does when he sees a person in front of him. 
>We can say that Boggart doesn't need a wand to do this type of 
>legilimency. Yes, I am talking about legilimency. Boggart 
>penetrates the mind of his client and immediately gains the 
>knowledge of `HIS/HER FEAR'. And after that, it takes the shape of 
>that fear. That's how it works. 

>Rams wrote:
>Neither has to work on the mind of its victim-
>rather, it works something like an emotion-sensor which is tuned in
>to a particular wavelength.

I agree with Rams, I don't think legilimency is involved, I think 
that we project our fears onto the world.  Maybe first the boggart 
just emanates the emotion of fear, and when we sense it, we give it 
form. This makes a conection between the boggart and the individual, 
so that the boggart is tuned into that individual's emotional state 
and sort of locks itself into it. 

This concept seems to work much better with the defense against a 
boggart.  When the individual becomes concious of their own fear and 
changes that into laughter, then the boggart is forced to change by 
the change in their emotion. Also, when a group of people is 
involved, all projecting different things, the boggart changes form 
rapidly.  

If the boggart used legilimency to look for fears, why would it 
change into something funny, surely it would simply seek something 
else that we were afraid of and change into that. It would be 
controlling the situation, whereas it seems to me, that with 
boggarts, as soon as the wizard/witch realises what is happening and 
deliberately makes the effort to change their emotion, they are in 
control of the boggart shape.

If this theory is correct, then a boggart's shape would change 
according to what someone feared most at that moment.  So if Harry 
had seen a boggart before he saw a dementor in PoA, it would 
probably have taken the form of LV.  Only after he had met a 
dementor would it take that shape.  Therefore I don't think people 
have a fixed form boggart, like they have a fixed form patronus.

>Mira wrote:
>Along the same line of thought, I read somewhere an
>excellent theory that Voldemort would not be able to
>produce a patronus, 

I haven't read the original post, but I think the moment that the 
DEs escaped from Azkaban might produce a pretty good patronus!

>Marcella wrote:
>I think that Voldie's boggart might be something related to
>Love/Hope/Goodness. 
Nice one Marcella, I liked your argument.

Saraquel