Help with Lupin's boggart

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 96214

Potioncat wondered:
 I'm looking for the discussion about whether Lupin's 
> boggart was a moon or a prophecy orb.  I know what my opinion was 
at 
> the time, but I'd like to take another look. Does anyone recall 
that 
> issue and have an idea of where it might be?

Ginger (with canon!):

I don't know if it's been discussed here, but Lupin answers the 
question himself in the Shrieking Shack: (PoA p.346 US paperback)

Lupin has just been outed by Hermione, and asks how she knew he was a 
werewolf.

"Did you check the lunar charts and realize that I was always ill at 
the full moon?  Or did you realize that the boggart changed into the 
moon when it saw me?"

So there we have it, but on this list- who knows, maybe it has been 
discussed that Lupin is not really a werewolf, but rather, a 
mooncalf.  (FB p.28) A shy creature which only emerges at the full 
moon and dances and leaves silvery dung that is really good 
fertalizer.  He never really transformed, he just went out dancing.  
The boggart was a red herring, and was really a disco ball.  He faked 
the one transformation with a potion just to scare Snape, which is 
why he was never reprimanded, and faked the other in PoA so that no 
one would know that he was the Fred Astaire of the WW.  Just keeping 
his cover.  

Ginger, realizing that she has tripped dangerously close to ESE!Lupin 
territory by implying that he helped PP escape that night, and is now 
making a hasty retreat.