[HPforGrownups] Ridiculing the moon

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 53795

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, clio44a wrote:

> Maybe it is only necessary to conjure a funny picture in your mind. 
> But, ... a cockroach?
> Why would Lupin find a cockroach amusing?
> 
> Maybe the orb Lupin's boggart became wasn't the moon after all? 
> Unlikely, I know.  

The first time I read PoA, I thought the orb was a crystal ball.  After 
all, Trelawney said Lupin nearly panicked when she offered to do a reading 
for him.  

Maybe it really is a crystal ball, and not the moon.  After all, JKR
frequently makes humorous references to Trelawney looking like a giant
insect.  If Lupin was imagining Trelawney's crystal ball turning into an
actual insect, and a rather puny one at that, I can see why he would find
that funny.


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"