boggart-fighting (was: Hermione and Snape).

[a_svirn]

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> 
> Pippin:
> We have canon that Snape is a better teacher for Hermione, in
> the sense of helping her reach her potential, than Lupin. Lupin
> doesn't  teach her to fight her boggart. 

a_svirn:

An interesting point about this boggart of Hermione. Just WHY Lupin 
didn't let her tackle the boggart? It couldn't have been anything 
other than deliberate. And I don't buy the story she made up about her 
boggart being McGonagall telling her she's failed everything. For one 
thing, she couldn't have been THAT much worried about her results, for 
another – a blood-curdling cry is not a likely reaction to such news. 
She must have encountered something really horrid out there and for 
some reasons felt compelled to conceal what it was. I wonder what? 

a_svirn