Some Lupin questions

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 58930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" 
> <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How do you know Boggarts aren't like wasps -- when they get 
> inside,  you kill them! <
> 
> There's this from chapter 12 of PoA
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> "Another boggart," said Lupin, stripping off his cloak. "I've been 
> combing the castle ever since Tuesday , and very luckily, I found 
> this one lurking inside Mr. Filch's filing cabinet.... 
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> 
> (Hey! Maybe  Lupin was looking for the Map!)
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> ..I can store him in my office when we're not using him; there's a 
> cupboard under my desk he'll like."
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> Lupin sounds rather solicitous of the boggart here. It seems odd 
> to me. If the critters are dangerous, why risk keeping it in the 
> office between lessons?  If they aren't really so bad, why  did he 
> kill the other one? It sounds a bit callous. You could be right 
> about the grindylow...but then why not reveal its fate?
> 
> Pippin
> who doesn't like wasps either

Annemehr:
Aw, man!

I forgot about that part.

And Lupin calls the Bogart "him" instead of "it," too.

Alright, I started off tongue-in-cheek for this part (but not the 
grindylow part, except for Harry stunning it).  But now this is 
getting serious.

And I don't have much of an answer, except that a boggart is a "dark 
creature."  But, can dark creatures even be culpable for that, as if 
they could help it?  Lupin's attitude would seem to fit with other 
things we know of the WW though, such as hurling gnomes out of 
gardens, transfiguring hedgehogs into pincushions -- and distrusting 
werewolves!  So, maybe Lupin is nice to them until he finishes them 
off, er, humanely?  I don't make the wasps suffer, either...

As for revealing the fate of the grindylow, what do you want -- a 
laundry list of what happened to *all* the dark creatures?  He had a 
grindylow *tank* because the grindylow needed water to live in while 
it was in the castle.  The kids didn't notice any tank on the train, 
though.  Would they, or did he just pick it up in Hogsmeade?  Did JKR 
mention the tank because it's significant, or does she throw in some 
insignificant details to help mask the significant ones?

Annemehr
who can't think of *any* supposedly good character who will turn out 
to have been evil all along -- but is pretty sure one of them will!