Ridiculing the moon

[datalaur]

No: HPFGUIDX 53830

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clio44a" <clio44a at y...> wrote:
> Why on earth does Professor Lupin's boggart (the moon) turn into a 
> cockroach after the Riddikulus spell??
<snip> 
> What's funny about a cockroach? Lupin himself, when lecturing his 
> students how to face the boggart, says it should be forced into 
> something comical.

Maybe he's thinking of how the moon turns him into a werewolf -- 
horrible, disgusting and dangerous -- and instead thinks of the moon 
turning him into a were-cockroach... horrible, disgusting and not at 
all dangerous.  That seems pretty funny to me.

laur