Help with Lupin's boggart

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 96313

(Quigon) Ginger before:
> > 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.

(Quigon) Ginger now:
Ah, I have stared at this post and run the thinker down.  I apologize 
if my response seemed flip-I had thought you were looking for canon 
as well as discussion.  Thanks to Pippin for the thread number!

Now, on to the theory.  Let's see.  If we consider an orb to be the 
future, then Lupin considers the future to be the most frightening 
thing he faces.  In his shoes, so would I.  If he makes the future 
less frightening by turning it into a cockroach, then what does a 
cockroach represent?  Perhaps the mundane present?  Something easily 
defeated by squashing it?

Another possibility is that he knows about Harry's prophecy, and that 
it is Harry's future that he finds frightening.  That would connect 
it with the misty figures.  At least they are in the same room. 

I must admit I am at a loss to explain the cockroaches over Harry's 
head.  I realize you are still in the thinking stage, but if you gel 
this out, I'd love to hear it.  Even connecting the 2 cockroach 
references would be interesting. 

(Quigon) Ginger, noting the arrival of another Ginger to the list and 
welcoming a kindred spirit!