boggart-fighting (was: Hermione and Snape).

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 128493


> Greenfirespike says:
> 
> I agree.  Remember, the average age of kids in the class attempting 
> to fight the boggart is 13.  Most 13 year-old children's greatest 
> fears are unwarranted and unexplainable.  Ron is afraid, more than 
> all else on earth, of spiders (although big ones at that) while 
> Neville's greatest fear is his Grandmother yelling at him.  Lupin 
> even tells Harry he is mature for having 'fear' has his greatest 
> fear.  

Finwitch:

Well, considering that Ron was nearly eaten by Aragog's 'children' 
less than a year before the boggart, I wouldn't say his fear is all 
that unreasonable... (it's the little harmless spiders in fake-
Moody's class that show the extent of his arachnophobia). Never the 
less, Ron *does* defeat his boggart, as does Harry. 

But Hermione-- I suppose her worst fear *was*, at least then, 
failure. You know, if Lupin thought Hermione's fear was Basilisk -- 
considering she nearly got killed by one in the previous year - I 
certainly don't blame him for not letting Hermione face the boggart...

And Hermione's not only one failed with a boggart. Molly didn't 
defeat hers, either - poor Molly, seeing them dead all the time...

Finwitch