Help with Lupin's boggart

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 96220

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> 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?"
> 

Potioncat:
Yes, that was always my opinion too.  But since then I've had reason 
to reconsider and wanted to see what the different posts had said 
about it.  I think there is a connection (still working on this mind 
you) between his boggart orb turning into cockroaches and the jar of 
cockroaches smashing over Harry's head and the misty figures that 
come out of prophecy orbs in the DoM.
Potioncat