Some Lupin questions

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 58941

Pippin:
> > ****
> > 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...


Lupin needed the Boggart for Harry to practice. It would make sense 
that he would want to keep the thing happy. On page 175, Lupin talks 
about being lucky to find another one, so he wants to essentially 
keep the thing docile.

Darrin
-- Boggart! Hee! Just a funny sounding name.