What haunts your dreams at night? The answer might change depending on whom you ask. Serial killers? Perhaps demons, or whatever monsters you might have seen from a show or a scary story? If you’re not the type to get spooked easily, maybe you toss and turn in your bed over potential horrific events or accidents.
It’s one thing to have bad dreams about those, but at least your nightmares don’t follow you to the real world. Unlike Boggarts – those strange, malevolent beings from Harry Potter who occasionally love to scare the ever-loving crumpkins out of the cast.
Boggarts have no real form. They perpetually take on the physical appearance of whatever scares a particular person the most. Coupled with their tendency to seek dark and gloomy spots, and you’ll eventually end up with a lot of abandoned places considered “haunted.”
What would your Boggart be in Harry Potter? They say recognizing what you’re afraid of is the first step to conquering your fear, so take this quiz and find out for yourself!
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Harry Potter isn’t just a feel-good fantasy series that explores the many whimsies of magic.
Magic itself has dark roots; it is an aspect of the supernatural, a part of our world that remains largely unknown to us mortals. And as you probably know, the fear of the unknown drives many of the phobias that plague us.
Boggarts instinctively know how to use our phobias to cripple us psychologically. These non-living beings can tap into a person’s psyche and adopt the form of their deepest fears.
While some believe that Boggarts behave this way out of sheer malignance towards humans, others theorize that the creatures use their shape-shifting as a defense mechanism to ward potential threats away from their gloomy habitats.
Have you found out what your Boggart would be in Harry Potter? We hope you don’t get rattled too hard by the revelation.
English folk tales talk about boggarts as trickster creatures that inhabit a particular area, dwelling most commonly in swamps and bogs.
Boggarts scare, prank, punish and drive away people. Unlike the entities in Harry Potter, they don’t transform into a person’s worst fear; that ability is more similar to the Boogeyman from related Western folklore.
Series author J.K. Rowling likely incorporated features of a particular type of boggart from the 1867 book Lancashire Folklore, as this species could change its form at will.
Harry Potter’s main cast all have fears shaped by their traumatic backstories, which are reflected in the forms of their Boggarts.
Dementors, representing fear in general, were Harry’s own Boggart apparition, while Hermione’s manifested as various scenarios of her failures. Ron’s, oddly enough, took the form of a giant spider.
Dumbledore himself saw the dead body of his sister Ariana, while Remus’ boggart appeared as a full moon symbolizing his fear of lycanthropy.
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