Lily's Boggart
Alright I discussed Snape's Boggart a few days back actually but now considering Lily's Boggart isn't known and she is someone who was Snape's best friend at one point.
Readers talk about how Lily affected Snape yet refused to acknowledge that Snape affected Lily just as much perhaps even more.
I mean we see Lily as a person who is concerned for Snape's choices in the Prince's Tale chapter.
She is someone who is emotional by nature in contrast to Snape's more guarded demeanor.
Her language is expressive and emotional not guarded. Her emotions like her son are easy to read.
She feels too much as seen in her death scene yet unlike Snape cannot mange them.
I mean her early marriage to James, her early parentage hood in a society where her worth isn't much she is a Muggleborn.
Why did she decide to get married so young when she had no money or job for someone gifted highly or remarkable magically.
She doesn't do anything.
It shows that unlike Snape she couldn't be alone and needed others validation not hers. She doubted her ability unlike him.
After all her Patronus is a doe which means she is someone in need of validation, companionship, she is emotional and caring all the traits she possess.
Her protective nature over Harry is strikingly similar to how does care about their young ones.
Her emotional nature as evident by prince tale and Snape's worst memory.
Her use of nicknames in her connection with Snape all demonstrate someone deeply involved in personal social connections.
Slughorn called her dynamic and vicious girl again emotional nature which is changeable.
Her willow wand as highlighted in the Philosopher's Stone indicates this.
She can't be alone Al and that's why she choose to get married because her fractured friendship with Snape and her broken connection with her sister was too much for her to bear she needed others more and in a sense one could say James was a sort of replacement.
Her Boggart would be likely being alone or loneliness in comparison to Snape who would fear identity loss in my option.
Look at her as Lily Potter her letter to Sirius indicates someone who is personally invested into connections they are in hiding yet she doesn't truly understand that.
She desires companionship even then but there is nothing normal about their situation.
I think the reason she married early is because she resolved to join the war. Given that she was attacked by Voldemort right after graduating, it's understandable that she would want to marry early. However, I struggle to understand why she would have a baby during the war, as that could be a weakness.
Lily's Boggart would probably have been the sight of her family, including Petunia, dying. Molly's Boggart was the corpses of her family, including Harry.
@az-aquarius This is a very interesting concept, and not one I had considered in much depth. Nice contribution!
I have slightly edited your post to correct the punctuation mainly. There are some other issues, but I didn't want to tamper with your personal expression.
I see you wrote that Slughorn called Lily 'vicious'. Did you mean 'vivacious'?
Yes sorry about my spellings.
I was typing at a fast rate and well the site is a bit I don't the words typing they appear sometime edited.
Thankyou.
I (roughly) headcanon Lily's boggarts as having been something like this, in order of appearance:
- Whatever childhood fear she had before she met Severus
- A Dementor (hey, something she had in common with Harry!)
- Perhaps something along the lines of Dumbledore telling Lily that she isn't eligible for Hogwarts. She clearly had concerns that being a Muggleborn somehow made her unfit.
- Severus the Death Eater (during the latter stages of their friendship)
- Her (childhood) family's deaths
- A dead Harry
I wonder if there's any fic where Severus is confronted with Lily's boggart of type #4. There would be no clearer message of what she thinks of his current associations.
