Ridiculing the moon

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 53788

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clio44a" <clio44a at y...> wrote:
> 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?

Well - I think that the boggart IS indeed the moon.
However, MOON is not exactly what Lupin fears, just that he 
transforms every Full Moon. That's what he fears - transforming where 
he'd kill someone. I think Lupin finds it amusing to be able to turn 
Moon into something as revenge of all those full moon transformations 
he must go trough and well, maybe Lupin likes Cockroach Clusters?

Still, the Boggart doesn't *have* that power. Maybe the transforming 
is just periodical with a period that happens to be exactly the time 
Moon takes on it's orbit but is in no way *powered* by Moon? Like 
menstruation circle, which also gave Hermione an advantage to notice 
Lupin's periodical illness...

-- Finwitch