Lupin's Boggart- really the full moon?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 72934

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "i_tuan" <shaman at m...> wrote:
> --- 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 don't think you've answered Pippin's point, really.  Remember 
Harry's Patronus lessons, when the boggart affected him exactly like 
a real dementor would.  He got cold, he heard the voices *more 
clearly than he had with the last real dementors.*  He heard James 
for the first time!  So, if a boggart can *be* a dementor for Harry, 
why does the silvery orb boggart have no effect at all on Lupin?

Sure, Lupin hates and fears the full moon.  If that's what his 
boggart turned into, who'd blame him?  But the absence of any lunar 
effects on Lupin is good cause to wonder if that silvery orb doesn't 
indeed represent something else -- and a crystal ball or prophecy 
orb would have no immediate observable effect on him, and so be 
reasonable possibilities.

Or, it *could* be a flint! :)

Annemehr