Overview
Lupin’s Boggart lesson combines an incantation with an act of imagination. Students must picture an amusing transformation of the thing they fear. The lesson works as both practical defence and an introduction to how the story treats fear as something that can be understood and challenged.
In the books
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Neville practises the spell during Lupin’s first practical lesson.
Source: Prisoner of Azkaban, “The Boggart in the Wardrobe”.Reading notes
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Sources
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, chapter “The Boggart in the Wardrobe”.
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