Why is Lupin afraid of the floating silver orb?

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26911

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> 
> If Harry's boggart had been He-Who-Must, then would the boggart-
Voldy
> been able to Avada Kedavra Harry on the spot??

Good question.  Just how much indepndent power does a Boggart have?  
I'd say none.  When Lupin brings the Boggart into the classroom, he 
has no idea what horrors the students might cause the boggart to 
assume.  (If a student had feared a bomb, Lupin would have quite a 
mess on his hands.)  It would be quite irresponsible to unleash such 
a monster on the students.



> 
> 
> More problematic for me is the boggart in the maze, it turns into a
> tangle-footed dementor first, *then* he says "Riddikulus", which
> destroys it (without laughter), just the reverse of what it should 
be.
> *That* I think is a genuine Flint.

I thought this was a strange way to approach this scene, also.  But I 
think it mostly follows the rules, so may not be a Flint.  Harry sees 
the boggart/dementor, and wards it off with a patronus.  (Which 
suggests that the boggart is really just a shell of whatever form it 
assumes.)  Then, when he sees the boggart make an error (tripping), 
he explodes it.  (We know boggarts make errors like this because 
Lupin tells us that he has seen boggarts err by trying to assume more 
than one form at once.)  Why doesn't Harry have to force it to assume 
a comical form?  Because Harry is such a powerful wizard and so 
talented at DADA that he can just skip that step, perhaps?  

Cindy (who didn't realize boggarts are so interesting)