Actually an excellent question! Thanks for sharing this with us.

From the first time I read this event in PoA I took a dislike to Lupin. Set aside that the boggart was actually dangerous or not, exposing someone to thier fears with no mental preperation is as irresponsible as throwing someone into the deep end of the pool to teach them to swim.

I can imagine Lupin was giddy when Neville said he was afraid of Snape. He took took this as an opportunity to humiliate Snape by suggesting the grandmother's clothing.

He continues to bully the unpopular Snape.

This is the first review I've written in 5 years. Stories lie this remind me why I love fanfiction. It's the hidden pieces of our favorite stories. It's what could have been.

THANK YOU! What would Remus of done had Harry's boggart actually been Voldemort?! Or the inata-death basilisk?! They'd of all

AWESOME!I LOVE THIS! It makes so much sense.

Certainly food for thought; over something most didn't think about twice when first reading about the incident in POA. Great job.

Hi there! The original plan was to read your one-shots and then review them all at once. The review would have been something like: "OH my god, I cant believe I havent read any of your work until today!" However, my plans changed when I fell over the word "defenestrate". I have never heard it before and had to google it. Seriously, its awesome! I didnt know theres an English word for "throwing someone out of the window", as it is translated. Maybe it is stress-induced; I should do other things than getting lost in the internet; but I laughed far too much about it.
Back to "Child Endangerment": Severus Snape is a very enjoyable character. I love his snarkiness, and if he had been a little bit less of an outcast/introvert in the books, I guess he would have destroyed Lupin exactly like that. Snape is so wonderfully in-character, and I know that I am incapable of writing him the way he should be written, so I can appreciate writers who are able to do it.
Your writing is nice to read, and I suspect without spelling errors, although Im no judge for that.
I wish you a good day and will continue with reading the rest :D
Leo

afaik, boggarts do not do that.

I really liked this story! Loten suggested it at the end of one of her stories, and I thought it was brilliant! I've honestly never really liked Lupin and I thought he got off too easy in terms of his dealings with Severus. Looking forward to reading more of your stories! Happy writing :)
xx Sage

That... makes a frightening amount of sense. I've seen crossovers posted where someone's boggart was a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who and how very very bad that would be ("that which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel"); and I've seen plenty of alternative choices for various peoples boggarts; but it never occurred to me someone would think of the bloody Basilisk.
Considering the Hogwarts Rumour Mill, the people most likely to be affected by the idea of the Basilisk itself are only the ones who actually saw it- most people spent the year hearing all sorts of theories and terrified of /something/ but didn't know it was a basilisk. A large point to the plot was that no one made the connection of the "monster" being a basilisk until Hermione figured it out, got petrified, and then Harry and Ron found out just the same night they had to rescue Ginny. So most of the school only found out anything about it /after/ it was dead.
So the only people likely to be scared enough of it to think of it in that setting are the victims of the petrifaction, Ginny (who would probably be more scared of Tom), Harry (who killed it but /got bitten/), and Ron (who only saw the skin, but almost lost both his sister and his best friend to it).
Snape's argument is therefore still completely valid- Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all in that classroom, and only Ron's severe arachnophobia really saved them. (Harry and Hermione both didn't get to try, if I recall correctly. Lupin stopped Harry's chance and I think Hermione was next to him and didn't get to go because Harry got blocked before she could and then it was over.)

Continuing the line of thought it was also lucky that the various fears were not as aggressive as the real versions- a vampire with actual enhanced speed and strength could be very dangerous until some got a lucky shot or opened the curtains enough to let the sun stall it. A "Medusa" could be just as dangerous as a Basilisk- one look is all it takes; though certain myth-based Medusa-like creatures might only petrify, which they can fix.
Even if a boggart version of something is a weaker representation of anything it imitates, in an enclosed room full of /thirteen year olds/ it could still be so very dangerous.

Really, the only reason nothing dangerous happened is because boggarts just seem perfectly content to jump out, turn into something to scare the sense out of whoever's there, and /stay there/ while people scream or cry. (See when they were cleaning Grimmauld Place and Mrs. Weasley just sat there crying and occasionally hitting the boggart with a "riddikkulis" spell, and it stayed right there on the floor just shifting from dead person to different dead person. It didn't actually /do/ anything, like becoming an infieri/zombie instead of a corpse that could move to attack her.)

I think you are the first person I have read to point out that one of the students should have been afraid of a basilisk after the previous year, especially Hermione. Since the effects are muted with the boggart, I would argue for petrification, but they wouldn't know for sure, would they? Very nice catch showing that in addition to being demeaning to a colleague or to fellow students who had very personal information broadcast to the world, the lesson could have also been deadly.

absolutely right, you are.

*nods*

Interesting points! :-)

I really enjoyed this rant-fic. ] There are several characters in the HP universe that need lecturing with liberal use of a clue-by-four, and Professor Snape's nowhere near the worst-he's only the obvious target for everybody.

Hmm...no reviewer seems to have mentioned the power of the human mind, in regards to the boggart's ability to mock powers like the basilisk's stare. If the children had *believed,* utterly, that the boggart-basilisk's stare would kill them-they'd quite probably have *died,* just from their belief. Maybe not all of them, though seeing one classmate die could very well trigger more by reinforcing their belief; but even one dead child would have been too many, and obviously, Lupin hadn't spared even a moment's thought towards any possible danger to them (which seems a very Marauder attitude, unfortunately-Unintended consequences? What're those?). And the dangers of Professor Snape losing control of the little blighters in his classroom-yeah, I'd say he had a *definite* point there-even if canon wizards are portrayed as not seeming to feel any actual pain unless it's from something like a Crucio...