[HPforGrownups] Ridiculing the moon

[ninerings]

No: HPFGUIDX 53809

> What's funny about a cockroach? Lupin himself, when lecturing his
> students how to face the boggart, says it should be forced into
> something comical.

> Now, Lupin's moon boggart gets turned into a cockroach. Odd, isn't it?
> I don't see the connection between a cockroach and the moon/Lupin's
> lycantrophy (sp?). From the student's attemps it seems to be required
> to picture the object of fear in a comic situation. How does turning
> the moon into a cockroach make fun of the moon?
> Any ideas?

I firmly believe that this is indeed the moon. Perhaps he was taking 
such a literally large problem - after all, very few things are bigger 
than a moon - and turning it into something very small. Something 
almost beneath consequence. A bug. The seems to be a more experienced, 
refined result. After all, adults have much more complicated senses of 
humor.

ninerings