Originally Posted by XanaSnape

"Excellent question, Miss Steeyle. Ten points. The boggart's magic is such that it is able to extract or 'read' the conscious and subconscious emotional landscape of its victims; psychomagical experts have studied this to great extent. A boggart feeds on fear and uses fear as a defensive weapon. It is also a creature of shadows, one who hides. The only thing it loathes more than laughter is showing its true face. Therefore, when a boggart detects that its victim truly fears the face of a boggart, it knows that he or she fears the unknown and will often use that, staying just out of sight and working to build fear through unease. Have any of you who fear the unknown-- on any level- ever been in a dark alley or an attic and seen something unidentifiable just out of the corner of your eye, but when you try to face it you cannot see it? That was likely a boggart... building your fear by staying just in your peripheral vision, so it might feed on your building fear and make you nervous as it moves in closer and closer, ready to attack you." Kazimeriz smirked as he said this, slooowly moving up behind Plymouth Morgan, closer and closer, as if to demonstrate.