We watch our umpteenth cubicle-dweller swallowed up by the horde and think-have we become too sedentary? We stare, as fragile alliances of survivors fracture over who should make the run for the flare gun in the pickup's glove compartment-would we sacrifice ourselves for our loved ones? Could the government be *that* corrupt? Has the selfie generation become too self-absorbed to survive the apocalypse? It's all getting a little heavy and a bit overwhelming and then. "Walkers" in The Walking Dead, "infected" in Resident Evil, "vampires" in The Strain.all scary in their own right, certainly, but a zombie outbreak also tends to reflect back to us our fears about modern society. But the lesson of the Boggart is a familiar one all the same-you can master the object of your fear by rendering it absurd. I haven't read the novels, so the movies are a bit confusing for me. Alan Rickman ends up in a dress for some reason. A snake Boggart gets magically transmogrified into a Jack-in-the-box, which is actually kinda creepier, really. With the wave of a wand and the incantation "riddikulus," a Boggart in the assumed form of a giant spider gets shod with eight roller skates. Unfortunately for the poor Boggart, there's also a spell that's laser-targeted on its ironic weakness, as Harry & co. In the world of Harry Potter, where the laws of natural selection seem to favor whichever genes carry the most whimsy, there exists a species called a Boggart which takes on the appearance of your greatest fear, and is defeated by laughter.
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