In Prisoner of Azkaban, when Prof. Lupin takes the students into the staff lounge to teach them how to ward off boggarts, Snape is there and promptly leaves, saying he doesn't care to watch.
I know the series never touched on it, but I was just wondering what the rest of you thought...what form do YOU think a boggart would take in front of Snape?
2007-09-20 13:33:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Harry...no, that was just for fun. It's an interesting question because Snape has pretty much lived his worst fears. Although I have to say him begging for his life when the pre-moldy Voldy had Nagini kill him was pretty enlightening. Perhaps something from his troubled childhood--his father perhaps or the young Lily not wanting to have anything to do with him. Or how about Harry finding out Snape's feelings for Lily and confronting him?
Really, after thinking about it, I'd have to say Snape must have lived in constant fear that Voldemort would find out he was a "double agent". With the life he led that must have been Snape's worst fear, aside from shampoo and hot water of course. :)
2007-09-20 15:23:18 · answer #1 · answered by AllGrownUp 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Snape Boggart
2016-10-22 01:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember what he made Dumbledore swore when he agreed to protect Harry? "But never -- never tell, Dumbledore! This must be between us! Swear it! I cannot bear... especially Potter's son... I want your word!" That would have been his greatest fear, of Harry finding out the truth about him and his feelings for Lily. He was always seeing Harry as arrogant as James and at that time, he would have feared ridicule from Harry. I guess his Boggart would take the form of a laughing, taunting Harry.
I doubt if his Boggart would be Voldemort since he was brave enough to double cross him for years. Before Lily died, yes, that would have been his Boggart, a dead Lily.
2007-09-20 20:28:13 · answer #3 · answered by zachmir 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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Yes, boggarts can harm people, and even kill them. In Chapter 7: The Boggart in the Wardrobe, Lupin never lets Harry close enough to the boggart for it to take shape. The boggart wasn closest to Ron and he turned it into a legless spider, Lupin stepped between it and Harry, then the boggart takes the shape of a floating silvery-white orb (that no one initially reconized as the full moon). Lupin turns it into a cockroach and it becomes Snape again when it gets close to Neville again and it dies (explodes in puffs of smoke) after Neville hits it with the Riddikulus charm a second time and the class laughs again at Boggart-Snape in a dress. In Chapter 8, Lupin explains to Harry that he assumed that the boggart would take the form of Voldemort and did not want panic to spread from stories of Voldemort appearing in a classroom at Hogwarts. He did not know Harry was thinking of the dementors on the train, until after Harry told him. In Chapter 12: The Patronas, Lupin finds a second boggart (hidden in one of Filtch's filing cabinets) and uses it in Harry's private lessons. The boggart affects Harry in much the same way as the real dementors do and cause him to blackout. Dementors feed on the happy emotions and memories of its victims, and that draining effect is what causes their target to become weak, blackout, and eventually become another dementor once they have been "kissed" by the dementor and the last bit of their soul is sucked out. Boggarts also feed on their victim's emotions, but instead of happy memories, it feeds on fear. The boggart gets stronger the more frighted their victem is. It is most likely that boggarts feed off the victim in "sessions" so that their "meal" can last as long as possible. It takes shape and feeds on the victim's fear and this intense fright along with the drain of emotions (similar to the draining when dementor's feed on happiness) causes the victim to pass out. The boggart then backs off and hides in a dark spot nearby, since the unconcious victim does not generate any emotions of fear. When the victim regains conciousness the boggart remerges from the shadows and feeds again as the victim becomes frightened again. The feeding weakens the victim, just like if the draining were done by a dementor, the boggart continues this cycle of "scare and wait", until the fatigued victim eventuall dies of fright and there is no more fear for them to feed on. Boggart in the form of a dementor can kill it's victim, but it cannot perform the "dementor's kiss" so a boggart-dementor cannot suck out souls and create real dementors from their victims.
2016-04-10 10:23:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question! Although I've no idea how a boggart would embody it, I think he almost fears the past, or perhaps people knowing about his past.
2007-09-20 13:42:06 · answer #5 · answered by Perfect_Paige 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Voldemort
2007-09-20 13:41:59 · answer #6 · answered by Zesselle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the worst fear he ever faced was Lily's death.He lived through all his fears, but I think he was scared that Voldermort might find out he was working for Dumbledore.
2007-09-20 16:31:28 · answer #7 · answered by the only rtr5! 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lord Voldemort finding out that he betrayed him.
2007-09-20 14:16:18 · answer #8 · answered by aceix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably either dead Lilly, or Lilly kissing James.
2007-09-20 13:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by 3 of diamonds 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think either James (because he got Lily) or dead Lily.
2007-09-20 13:47:09 · answer #10 · answered by NYinFL 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋