Is there any canonical mention of the form taken by a boggart in Snape’s presence? One would assume that Lily’s dead body would be the most likely answer, but I’m just curious if JKR has ever explicitly mentioned it.
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Per J.K. Rowling's interview, "Telling us Professor Snape's patronus and boggart would give too much away", over at Accio Quote:
Since Snape's Patronus is a doe, as a reflection of his love for Lily, and since the Patronus would "give too much away" along with the boggart, we might suggest the latter to be several things:
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We don't know, but we can guess.
Up to the moment of her death, it was almost certainly Lily's death. After that, it was probably everyone finding out his secret shame (e.g. that he caused Lily to be killed) or possibly Harry's death (e.g. the destruction of his last link to Lily). As Edlothiad has already pointed out, according to Lego Harry Potter (Years 1-4) it was Voldemort. |
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Although probably not a very good canonical answer, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 had a lot of the characters have Lord Voldemort as their boggart, including Snape. However on another note, a very interesting essay on Quora suggests although it's likely to be Lily's corpse immediately after her death, aftr it may have been:
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At this point, this is probably just a superfluous answer, but could it also have been himself?
How many of us possibly hated our formative years as a teenager, especially if we had been tortured and tormented as he had?
That scene seen in his memory when he comes upon Lily's body and realizes what he has done. How many of us have mistakes for which we wished we had a time turner? If we could only go back in time and change that one thing? Not the mistake, but everything leading up to it.
It is, in canon, his worst memory. Anyway, I'm just throwing the possibility out there since we don't know the canon answer, but at times, we are our own worst enemy, and in the case of Snape, this may be truer for him than it is for most. |
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