Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

"WhAt KiNd Of TeAcHEr Is A CHilD's GrEAteST FeAr?"

Neville literally grinning because he knows it's silly. Absolutely no one, not even Lupin, a Professor, shows alarm at this. Also, Neville literally says he doesn't want it to become his grandmother either.

Harry tells Lupin that his Boggart would have been a Dementor. Lupin's response is not, "oh you must really be afraid of dementors." Nope, he says that it suggest his greatest fear is fear itself.

Now that we have established that the Boggart's form can represent something instead the thing actually being what you most fear, let's look at what Hermione's greatest fear is:

That's right, McGonagall. But WhAt KiNd Of TeAcHEr Is A CHilD's GrEAteST FeAr? Her greatest fear is obviously not McGonagall but failure. In addition, Lupin's Boggart was the full moon and he is obviously not afraid of the fucking moon, which is a lifeless rock floating in space, but what it represents to him; the turning, the pain, the loss of control.

Neville is nervous, Snape makes him more nervous with his assholery. I would say Neville's fear is also failure, especially failure to live up to his parents that's been instilled into him by his Grandma (whom Neville also didn't want the Boggart to turn into).

But how about Bellatrix you say? Shouldn't Neville's greatest fear be the woman who tortured his parents to insanity? Maybe, but people, especially kids aren't logical, particularly when it comes to things we fear. (See: Ron's greatest fear is spiders even though his sister was possessed and almost killed by Voldemort last year.)

Don't get me wrong, Snape is absolutely a dick to Neville, but y'all be blowing this boggart thing out of proportion. Learn to read critically and stop making shit up. God.

Stephen King’s IT is a boggart from Harry Potter. He becomes what ever you fear the most and the only way to get rid of him is to stop being afraid. The whole movie is just a bunch of muggles trying to get rid of a boggart without using magic.

……omg

Snape’s sexy strut and catwalk moves!

I can’t help but feel that people choose to ignore the fact that your greatest fear can be opportunal. For example, this morning I got marks back from an assessment worth 50%. If a boggart were to jump out at me then it would have taken the shape of my Lecturer telling me that I failed (somewhat similar to Hermione’s boggart during their assessment period). This afternoon, I was driving home; I’m a new driver and driving in an unfamiliar place alone really freaks me out. If a boggart were to emerge from the glove box it would have been a bloody paramedic telling me not to move after being in a freak accident. Plus, the other night I was freaking myself out by reading about the consequences of inbreeding. My boggart then would have been the last Hapsburg king drooling on me with his gigantic tongue. I see a lot of people bring up that infamous boggart chapter from PoA where Snape is revealed as Neville’s boggart. After the listing the situations above I am hardly surprised that after a particularly nasty lesson of potions (which Snape attempted to poison Trevor before the whole class) plus a crude side comment immediately before the DADA lesson that he fears Snape in that moment. He was nearly in tears making the shrinking potion and would have felt really bad about himself. Therefore, I do not think that it is fair to say that Snape was Neville’s WORST fear. I think he was undeniably afraid of him, but not traumatized by the pure sight of him (otherwise he probably wouldn’t have been able to conquer it).

I’m just really tired of seeing ppl say “buT NEVILLES BOGGART” Pls

Sounds legit

Severus Snape was a mean teacher. He was not a child abuser.

Let’s give an example of child abuse that the antis don’t mention.

Letting four Gryffindors get away with abusing, attempting to murder and sexually assaulting a poor half blood teenager.

NEGLECT is a form of child abuse and the fact that these teachers NEGLECTED to stop this kid getting abused. The fact that they victim blamed him by saying well he gave as hard as he got.’ The fact that they dismissed it as boys will be boys is child abuse.

Child abuse actually causes psychological TRAUMA to the child. Hermione was over Severus mocking her teeth in like less than a day. It hurt her feelings but it did not traumatize her.

Neville had Severus as his boggart because he was a normal kid with normal fears. Harry was not able to handle his boggart, because the dementors TRAUMATIZED him. They made him relive his mother’s death and her screams. But Neville was able to handle his boggart and then smile about it afterwards because he just had a normal silly fear of the mean scary potions professor.

Believe me if Neville was traumatized by Professor Snape he would have struggled to face the boggart just like Harry struggled to face his own and he would not have been smiling after.

If a teacher calls me an idiot or tells me my teeth are too big I’m not going to cry abuse. As a mature university student I would say he called me some names and I don’t think that is professional. I would not call that abuse because that is a very serious accusation and it’s not one I would just throw around lightly. Just saying.

If I was Hermione I’d see him as having unprofessional behaviour but I wouldn’t see him as a child abuser and I don’t think Hermione saw it as child abuse either.

Harry was not traumatized by Professor Snape. Angry, resentful but not traumatized.

But professor Dumbledore and professor McGonagall’s blatant favouritism for the marauders (not sure if he favoured Peter tho) caused them to NEGLECT Severus and let him suffer through more abuse from the marauders. They neglected him. They let his abusers get away with abusing him. They didn’t even expell the mutt after his attempted murder or expell James after he sexually assaulted Severus by revealing his undies to the school. Sexual assault does NOT have to be sexual in nature.

Sexual assault is disrespecting the sanctity of another person’s body without their permission. When James revealed Severus’ underwear. Underwear covering an intimate area of his body. He was showing disrespect for the sanctity of Severus’ body.

They were adults who let a teenager suffer through experiences that actually traumatized him. That is child abuse. Because they had the power to stop it but they didn’t.