COS - Hermione didn't face the Boggart. Meaning?

[smilingator4915]

No: HPFGUIDX 130813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowanbrookt" <rowanbrookt at h...>
wrote:
> I have been reading COS again and realised that in Lupin's Boggart 
> lesson Harry isn't the only one not to face the Boggart.  Lupin 
> purposly lets every pupil but Harry experience the Boggart, but now I 
> realise he also didn't let Hermione have a go.
> 
> Ron teases her that her most frightening thing ever would be a homework 
> that only got 9/10, but I wonder if JKR will return to the fact that 
> Hermione didn't face the Boggart in a later book.  Maybe Lupin knows 
> something about Hermione's past that hasn't been reveiled in the books. 
> After all, we know very little about Hermione's home life.  Maybe 
> Hermione will play a much bigger part, other than Harry's friend, or 
> maybe she has suffered in some way.
> 
> What do you think?



This is discussed in Unofficial Guide to HP... in PoA, Lupin gives the
students a final examination which is set up like an obstacle course.
The students do face a boggart... in fact, this is the part of the
course where Hermione messed up. Ron's "teasing" turned out to be
accurate (as it usually does): Hermione's boggart was Professor
McGonagall telling her that she "failed everything" (U.S. version,
page 319). 
It was also speculated in the Guide that the reason Lupin did not
allow Hermione to face the boggart was because he knew of her time
travelling and did not want her greatest fear to expose that she had
the Time-Turner.
But, I also like the idea that Lupin knows more about Hermione and her
past. We know a lot about the Weasleys because they are in the
wizarding community. But I wonder about the Grangers. How would you
feel/what would you think if your child were best friends with "the
boy who lived"? Do they even know what's going on in the wizarding
community?


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