The Bewitching Hour & The Boggart Moon (WAS Lupin Is Not An Airhead!)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39355

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:

> Marina wrote (about why Lupin doesn't transform at the boggart
moon):
> 
> >The effect that the Dementors have on 
> > people is a property inherent to Dementors, so the boggart 
> >acquires it along with the hooded cloak and the scabied hands.  The 
> >werewolf transformation, OTOH, is a property of the *werewolf*, not 
> >of the moon, so the boggart has nothing to do with it.  
> 
> I'm not sure this takes us all the way there.  What is the *reason* 
> Lupin transforms involuntarily?  It has to do either with the 
> objective power of the moon, or the subjective, internal feelings 
> Lupin has when he sees it, right?

I think the lycanthropy is a sort of magical trigger inside Lupin that
responds to the full moon.  The trigger "knows" the difference between
the real moon and a round glowy thing that only looks like the moon. 
(And, as someone else astutely pointed out, the boggart doesn't
*really* turn into the moon -- to do that it would've had to turn into
a spherical chunk of rock thousands of miles across.)

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com