[DISCUSSION] Biggest fears/worst memories

[boscaresque.livejournal.com]

So I was reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earlier (yes, I know :P) and during the parts involving boggarts and dementors, I started thinking about Hetalia and what each nation would see if they encountered either of those creatures. What would their boggarts turn into and what would the dementors force them to relive? I feel so nerdy for even thinking of this

Basically the question is: What are each nation's biggest fears? What about their worst memories? And alternatively, what are their best memories?

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[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

Since I love the Italies (and the Romance characters in general though):

I could see their boggart being Mussolini, if we go with Hitler as Germany's. For their worst memories? Well, Hetalia itself described the Italian Wars as a major bloodbath and they were physically just little kids at the time. That would be one source of trauma for them, and then of course there is World War Two.

If we go with the idea of Veneziano having been in the resistance after Italy joined the Allies or the idea of having having represented the Salo Republic (or both), that definitely would've been awful for him, especially with having to deal with such horrors as Cefalonia during that time and both Japan and Germany after him. And even with the South already having been "freed", Romano would have suffered too. The whole Fascist period would've definitely been a dark spot for them.

They'd probably be made to suffer through and experience what happened in Ethiopia and other places under that period, too. For natural disasters as opposed to the wars, I could see Romano being made to re-live the earthquakes that hit (since Southern Italy's had more compared to the North, though Veneziano would have his share too) and the feeling of being trapped and crushed in them would definitely be a fear. It's in my headcanon that his chorea never quite vanished and is tied to such things as the earthquakes, so losing control of his body? Definitely bad.

For their greatest memories? I think the unification would've been one for them, as well as the wars they fought for the independence. And then there would be the sort of bittersweet triumph in getting their home free at the end of WWII and the end of that era.

since I can't edit to add:

[vysnia-cerasus.livejournal.com]

Of course, there's also the option of their boggarts being the psychotic-yandere "complete Fascist monster"-type versions of them that some writers and artists like to use to illustrate them being "bad" in that period (though really, try finding a character that'd be completely spotless as a nation. It's part of why I'm not too hot on the darker-and-edgier takes that cast the characters as complete sociopaths, or just single one out for being "bad" @_@).