Lupin's Boggart- really the full moon?

[i_tuan]

No: HPFGUIDX 72742

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> It's been noted many times on this list that while Harry's boggart 
> has the same effects as a real Dementor,   Lupin's full moon 
> boggart doesn't cause him to transform into a werewolf. Various 
> explanations have been offered.  Perhaps imitating something 
> as vast as the moon is beyond a boggart's power, or maybe the 
> whole thing is a Flint.

Boggarts take on the appearance of one's greatest fear, hence Harry's boggart-
Dementor;  dementors instill fear and dread;  having been in their clutches, the sight of 
his biggest fear causes him to experience fear & dread.  It's not a matter of 'boggart-
Dementors are more powerful than boggart-Moons because Boggart-Moons aren't big 
enough'.

> I have an alternative explanation. What if Lupin's"silvery white 
> orb"  isn't the full moon at all?   What if  Lupin's boggart is
> actually  one of those "glass orbs" "softly  glowing" from the
> Department of Mysteries? What it it's the Prophecy?

What if it's a double-decker roast-beef sandwich?

Boggarts take on the appearance of one's greatest fear, as a sort of psychic camouflage;  
in what way is "The Prophecy" Lupin's greatest fear?  I refer you to the collected works 
of Lon Chaney, Jr. for evidence that werewolves hate and fear the full moon, as the 
harbinger of their inescapable transformation (barring a handy potion or two).  OTOH I 
am at a loss for why Lupin would most fear a glass ball.

> Parvati thinks  that Lupin's boggart is a crystal ball, which could 
> be a hint to the reader.  We also hear that Lupin fled from 
> Trelawney when she offered to crystal gaze for him. (PoA ch.11) 
> Was he simply trying to avoid an encounter with the batty 
> divination teacher or does he have reason to  dread her 
> prophetic powers? 

What's the future, for a werewolf?  Next full moon, you'll turn into a wolf again, but 
you'll be better again in 3 days, provided no-one kills you;  then you can go back to 
work (if you still have a job), go home to your family (if they'll have you), and find 
something to do for 26 days.  Then, you'll turn into a wolf....

Who'd want to listen to that?  Especially if it were thickly buttered w/ platitudes (as 
Trelawney's utterances so often are)?