I spent a couple of hours out in the rain, playing in the woods this evening. This is a boggart I created, though he's not quite finished here. I also made a delicious toffee apple under the shelter of a tarpaulin... I love being out in the rain :)
Around here, boggart making is a common outdoor activity for children. Organisations like the national trust and the wildlife trusts do them on activity days in school holidays and so on.
I think in other areas they give these things different names, e.g. in Derbyshire (and to me!) they're boggarts, but Staffordshire Wildlife Trust call them tree spirits and say they protect the trees (they're often made by sticking clay on to a tree trunk and then decorating it).
@roachling It's the most scariest thing that you are afraid of, like spiders. The boggart becomes a different object to each person. They have to try and overcome their fear by project a positive image in it and destroying it. That's a bit basic but gives you the idea.
This is the wiki definition of boggart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggart
Around here, boggart making is a common outdoor activity for children. Organisations like the national trust and the wildlife trusts do them on activity days in school holidays and so on.
The Longshaw Estate in the Peak District has a boggart trail to encourage outdoor play and exploration with loads of boggart houses
- http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-78eCRwY-FeQ/U2i0rMPkvMI/AAAAAAAAbYk/tgtkvmOAun4/s1600/Collage.jpg
and this is a Flickr set of various boggarts made at a kids event with the national trust a couple of years ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peakdistrictnt/sets/72157629860138646/with/7254766156/
I think in other areas they give these things different names, e.g. in Derbyshire (and to me!) they're boggarts, but Staffordshire Wildlife Trust call them tree spirits and say they protect the trees (they're often made by sticking clay on to a tree trunk and then decorating it).
I've never seen or read Harry Potter, so I don't know what a HP boggart is!