Snape's Boggart

[nettle]

Originally Posted by Joel007

I was just thinking that as with most enigmatic and complex characters who stand somewhere between the moral extremes, Snape might well fear his own actions should his self control slip.

that is a good idea but i am not sure...

[Joel007]

You know, like "what you could have become". the classic doppelganger of what your life might have made you.

[Majimaune]

Mmmm that is a good idea.

[Digger]

Shampoo? LOL! Brilliant!!!

[Crazihors]

it could be his father - remeber that memory harry saw when he was being 'taught' occlumency? But shampoo is probably a good a guess as any...maybe it's something totally irational, like skin products, for instance?

On a different note, i wonder what Moody's boggart is....

[Joel007]

Moody's is probably an Evil Dumbledore

[Leisha]

Originally Posted by Crazihors

On a different note, i wonder what Moody's boggart is....

Himself without a hip flask? Shock horror! No!!!

[Majimaune]

Probably.....

[Joel007]

er, the hip flask was polyjuice potion...

[HBP]

I believe his boggart is his father. I remember in Ootp when harry went to snape's memory there was man shouting after a woman. So i believe it was his father abusing his mother somehow.Another reason for him fashioning himself the Half - Blood Prince.

[Joel007]

but a father complex just seems so... mundane.

[Leisha]

Originally Posted by Joel007

er, the hip flask was polyjuice potion...

No, Mad-eye was always known for drinking from a hip flask -- that's why the impostor could get away with the polyjuice so easily. It think it had something to do with his distrust of everybody...

[Majimaune]

Originally Posted by HBP

I believe his boggart is his father. I remember in Ootp when harry went to snape's memory there was man shouting after a woman. So i believe it was his father abusing his mother somehow.Another reason for him fashioning himself the Half - Blood Prince.

I don't agree with you there. JK would probably try to do something she hasn't done before. She has already done the father thing with Harry and Prongs thing.

[Knight_of_Nights]

A few things. Whoever said that Dementor as fearing fear, we saw what happened with Harry. He saw a Dementor...not the shape of a Boggart...you would have to fear a Boggart from the start, as a Boggart, not in another guise.

Snape's Patronus will not be Voldemort or Harry, or even Dumbledore. An animal, such as snakes perhaps. But it is highly likely it will be a person or living thing. Snape doesn't strike me as being the type to be scared of living things...although a Love Potion might do the trick...

[Joel007]

Well if you want to get complicated his boggart could simply be a scene played out over and over again, we don't know the limitations of a boggart.

If it will be essential to the plot I'm not sure if any characters or animals introduced so far would work. Unless there's a creature which forces people to tell the truth?