Since the start of the last console generation, Capcom's brawler series has been one big clown nose on face of the undead, now three entries deep. suddenly there's Dead Rising, running zombies over with a lawnmower, hitting them with a gumball machine, jamming a shower head into their scalp that causes them to emit cranial fluids through the nozzle. 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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