Lupin Is Not An Airhead! (WAS Remus: Once more with feeling, )

[katzefan]

No: HPFGUIDX 39317

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:

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> My theory is that he doesn't transform because a boggart-
>moon is not a true moon.  When Lupin describes the boggart-
>dementor he says "It's 
> the nearest we'll get to a real Dementor." ( PoA, UK hardback, 
> P.175. ) Not 'it'll be the same as a real Dementor.'
> 
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> 
> Pip
> 
> (Who thinks it was a very good try, though. ;-)  )

As a Lupin fan, I'll settle for Mahoney's theory ... although I agree 
with Pip, that somewhere in all the yelling in the Shrieking Shack 
perhaps a little alarm bell should've gone off In Lupin's head ... 
but in denial? Don't think so. How could he be, when this has 
come up every month for many years? (Also, the moon's phases 
run for a week, don't they? So he wouldn't be safe 27 days out of 
28, as someone said, would he? More like 21 days out of 28.)

One interesting point here, though, is that the Boggart, as a 'fake' 
full moon, fails to affect Lupin. Why, then, does the Boggart, as a 
'fake' Dementor, still have such a profound effect on Harry?