[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione and the Boggart (POA)

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 170088

> <snip>
> > Any other ideas as to why Lupin didn't let Hermione tackle the
> > boggart?  <snip?>
> mjm1089
> >
>
> Dondee:
>
> As I recall... Ron's spider!boggart lost it's leggs and went rolling
> towards Lavender, Lav Lav went scampering out of the way and spider!
> boggart came to a rest at Harry's feet. Before the boggart could
> transform into Harry's worst fear Lupin distracted it and then set
> Nevil on it to finish it off. Lupin tells Harry later that the
> reason he distracted the boggart was because he thought it was going
> to turn into Voldie and scare all the kids. I take this to mean that
> if spider!boggart had rolled elsewhere, or if Lav Lav had faced it,
> the lesson would have continued untill it was Harry's turn (imagine
> how much worse Harry would have felt if all his other classmates had
> had a go except for him). Hermione was not excluded or protected in
> this, she just wasn't the closest to the boggart.


Shelley:

This is what I was going to say too- there were probably several kids for
whom their turn didn't come, because of how the events turned out, and
Hermione was just one of them. If I were Lupin, I would have called Harry
over, or put him last in line, so that the other students got a turn before
he let Neville finish it off. Sure, he would have felt put out, but the way
things happened, he did anyway.