Lupin's Boggart- really the full moon?

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No: HPFGUIDX 73895

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lmziner" <lziner at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "flower_fairy12" 
> <flower_fairy12 at y...> wrote:
> > Maybe Lupin isn't exactly *scared* of the moon. Dreads it, yes, but 
> > he has had many many years to become used to the effects of the 
> full 
> > moon.
> > 
> > Maybe...BIG maybe...the orb Lupin is scared of is the prophecy orb 
> > Harry smashed. Or maybe another propecy, I don't know.
> > 
> > Rosie
> 
> I think you are right on the first count.  That is a perfect way of 
> describing it.  JK might keep referring to it as an orb because it is 
> so small at the end of his wand that the  person viewing it only sees 
> a circle/sphere and not a pockmarked full moon
> 
> Lynn

Hi Tj here:  I have just been re-reading POA and at the end, while in
the Shreaking Shake, talking to Hermione, when she says she KNOWS he
is a werewolf. Lupin says of course you saw the full moon, from my
wand.  (while fighting the Bogart).  Lupin says it is a full moon. In
the Chapter Moony, Padfoot, wormtail, & Prongs.

Just wanted to let you know it is in canon that Lupin sees a full
moon.  It is not an orb, regarding the propcey. in MoM.  Lupin *is* a
werewolf.  Yes, he is afraid of the moon.  It changes him into a wild
beast, who could and would like to kill people.  Lupin is afraid of
that *thing* he becomes, when the moon is full.  
Poor Lupin.  I really love his character.  People shun him, because he
is a werewolf, but, he is the very gentlest and sweetest of people.
How sad, to be tortured by something that changes his mind is body and
yes even his soul for 3 days every month.  Poor Prof. Lupin.
Tj....