Help with Lupin's boggart / Cockroaches

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 96963

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
 >I really don't see why Lupin would lie to Hermione about his
 boggart being the moon when he's in the process of confessing 
thathe's a werewolf. What could be more terrible in Hermione's 
eyes than that (unless he's a DE and a prophecy orb or crystal 
ball would somehow lead her to figure that out).<

If Hermione *asks* Lupin whether his boggart is a full moon, but 
it's actually not,  he'll have to lie about it and risk arousing 
Crookshanks, or tell the truth and have Sirius learn  something 
Lupin might not want Sirius to know. Hermione doesn't know the 
right questions to ask, but Sirius does.

Sirius sees Lupin's boggart in OOP, but by then the idea that it 
represents the full moon is planted in his mind. Interestingly, 
Lupin doesn't use the riddikulus spell on the boggart in OOP. He 
vanishes it.

Pippin