Boggarts affects on Lupin and Harry

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 43489

OK I again want to apologise for bringing up topics from ages ago (although this seems like a re-occurring favourite like Snape and S Vs S) but I am still getting through those 7000 odd emails!

Basically this is in reply to all those questions about why the Boggart Dementor affects Harry but Boggart Moon does not affect Lupin.

I was wondering if it could perhaps be because, as the boggart is a shape shifter, when it turns into something it actually becomes that object or thing and therefore gains the powers of the thing it turns into (now stay with me I know your going to say "so why doesn't the moon affect Lupin). Well basically a Dementor (from what I remember when we are first told about them) is taller than a human being but still fits in a room, garden, field or wherever it may be standing, the same for all the other "fears" the children seem to have. Because of this the boggart can actually *turn into* the fear (whether it be Dementor or Giant Spider or Banshee) and because it can actually turn into that fear it can also gain the powers of that fear and therefore affect whoever casts it (or perhaps even everything and everyone around it - this explains the dimming of the candles in the practise room) 

The moon however is MUCH MUCH bigger, if the boggart were to turn into a real moon then it would partly destroy the planet (rather worrying idea) so therefore the boggart can't actually turn into the/a moon, it can only become an image or picture of the moon. This means it is not an actual full moon and therefore doesn't have the same power that the real full moon would have on Lupin because an image or picture of something never has the same powers/qualities or whatever that a *real* one of those would have (much like you can't drive a picture of a car, and an image of a lion can't attack you).

Perhaps the same thing happens with other things of magical power that are too big to fit into wherever the boggart is being tackled, we don't know because we haven't seen any others that are too big that *should* affect someone in some way.

I'm betting there is a really big problem with this idea that I haven't spotted so please be kind and point it out to me, it would be appreciated.

HOLLYDAZE!!!





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