[HPforGrownups] Question about Boggarts (WAS: About Werewolves)

[Katsmall the Wise]

No: HPFGUIDX 48239

illyana delorean wrote:

> >sherry wrote:
> >My question, then, is this:  If Harry is affected as though the 
> Boggart were a
> >real Dementor, why isn't Lupin affected as though the Boggart were 
> the real
> >moon?
> >
>
> Hmmm... that's a good question. I'm thinking that maybe, since the
> Boggart!Dementor was full-size, it had the full effects of a normal
> Dementor. Lupin's Boggart!moon was so much smaller in comparison to
> the actual moon, so maybe that's why it didn't have the
> werewolf-transforming effects on him that the actual moon does.
>
> illyana

Maybe it was because both Boggarts and Dementors are fear-based, while 
the moon is just a rock...  So Boggarts have a much easier time 
pretending to be Dementors then pretending to be the moon.

Katsmall the Wise
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