Ridiculing the moon

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 53842

 Clio wrote:
 
Why on earth does Professor Lupin's boggart (the moon) turn into a 
cockroach after the Riddikulus spell??
<snip>..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?
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Hello all, Fred Waldrop here,

At one time, I lived out in the country (lots of trees, fields, grass 
and stuff), and had one particular problem, cockroches.
It seems there are two things that cockroches need to thrive on that 
makes it nearly impossible to kill. (1)food,(ie.), leaves, wood, 
grass, or any kind of trash.  And (2)The MOON.
And because roaches of any kind seem to "come alive" when the sun 
sets and the moon rises, maybe this is what seems funniest to Lupin. 
That the thing he fears most,(the moon), brings to life something as 
easy to kill as a single cockroach.
While I hate the nasty little boogers (roaches) and find the moon 
exreamly beautiful, maybe someone whom hates the moon would find a 
roach funny. If not funny, maybe ironic that he has to fear something 
(the moon), that a cockroach seems to love, and that to him is funny.

Fred