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harry potter - What shape would a boggart take if a person doesn't fear anything?


Rereading the Prisoner of Azkaban, this interesting question(at least to me) popped in my head. What shape would a boggart take if a person is never depressed about anything, has no evil memories whatsoever for the boggart to feed on or has no fear?



Answer



In-canon, no-one knows.


Per Pottermore:



A Boggart is a shape-shifting creature that will assume the form of whatever most frightens the person who encounters it. Nobody knows what a Boggart looks like if nobody is there to see it, although it continues to exist, usually giving evidence of its presence by rattling, shaking or scratching the object in which it is hiding. Boggarts particularly like confined spaces, but may also be found lurking in woods and around shadowy corners.




It's not even apparent whether a boggart actually has a physical form, but rather manifests as a force of nature:



Like a poltergeist, a Boggart is not and never has been truly alive. It is one of the strange non-beings that populate the magical world, for which there is no equivalent in the Muggle realm. Boggarts can be made to disappear, but more Boggarts will inevitably arise to take their place. Like poltergeists and the more sinister Dementors, they seem to be generated and sustained by human emotions.





Out of universe, there are very few people that lack a fear response and even those individuals (extreme psychopaths, sufferers of Urbach-Wiethe) do have a psychological (but not physiological) ability to identify things that they dislike highly, even if they lack the mental capacity to actually feel a fear response.


It's possible that they would have the same response as a Muggle:



The more generally fearful a person is, the more susceptible they will be to Boggarts. Muggles, too, feel their presence and may even glimpse them, although they seem less capable of seeing them plainly and are usually easily convinced that the Boggart was a figment of their imagination.




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