How Boggarts work (was Why is Lupin afraid of the floating silver orb?)

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27334

Luke Wrote:

> To Cindy:
> 
> Oops, I somehow missed your comment about the lights going out in 
my 
> response to Boggarts' abilities to take on the powers of their form 
> counterparts.  Now that puts an interesting spin on things as proof 
> that Boggarts do have some ability to affect physical changes.  
> Interesting.  I shall have to regroup and reconsider.
> 
Luke, you may not have to regroup. I observed how you easily 
destroyed my whole idea that Lupin sipped wolfsbane potion to avoid 
transforming in front of the students, so I am the one who needs to 
re-group.

So here goes.  To this "harmless wolf" transformation problem, I 
offer up a pointless mini-rant.  I never liked this business about 
Lupin curling up as a harmless wolf in his office.  It is too messy, 
and leaves open the possibility that someone will discover him in his 
wolf-state.  Better would be simply to have him get sick instead of 
transforming, but remain human.  If I re-write the book accordingly, 
then my simple little theory would work just fine.  

Cindy (wishing people would pretend that it was hard work to destroy 
her theories)