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

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48240




> Sherry Garfio 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?
> 
Alrighty. I have put some thought into this as well and have developed a 
theory.

Perhaps, the Bogart does affect people as thier greatest fear would.. now 
before anyone says "Well then the moon should make Lupin transform", there is 
more.

Werewolves appear on the night of a full moon in a lunar cycle. Perhaps it is 
not the Moon that actually causes the transformation, but that the night of 
the full moon coincides with the night of the transformation... see where I 
am going here? So, we know that Lupin goes off to the the Shrieking Shack on 
the evening of his transformations and assuming that the class in which the 
Boggart experiences take place is in the day time, there would be plenty of 
reasons why Lupin does not transform.

Also, Lupin is a much more experienced and advanced wizard than Harry. He 
might be able to rationalise the fact that the Boggart is just a vision of 
what he fears most rather than the actual moon. 

-Snuffles


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