It really annoys me (but not me )

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 163953


> Nikkalmati
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> One thing that bothers me is that in POA (Scholastic paperback at 
133)  Lupin 
> says to the class "Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he 
is  alone, 
> . ."
> but in OOP (Scholastic hardback at 169 - I finally started buying 
the  
> hardbacks) Moody casts his eye up through the kitchen ceiling to 
the desk in the  
> drawing room above and declares "yeah, I see it . . . Yeah, it's a 
boggart . .  
> .Want me to go up and get rid of it, Molly?"
> So, how did he know it was a boggart if no one knows what one looks 
like  
> when it is alone?  I kind of wonder what Moody's boggart would be? 

zgirnius:
I noticed this too. I decided that the Boggart did not assume a shape 
for Moody, because it was not aware that Moody was looking at it. It 
thought it was alone and in hiding, and was thus in its natural 
shape. (So Lupin was wrong).

Alternatively, if the Boggart can sense when it is being seen, it 
turned into Moody's Boggart, and that is something one would not find 
hiding in a piece of furniture, even at the Black house.


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