Longbottoms/Lestranges/Bagman/Lockhart (was: Re: JKR's cryptic answer)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 120029


Kneasy:
> If Lupin's Boggart really is the moon, why doesn't he show some
> reaction to it? He dismisses it 'almost lazily', yet he tells us 
that
> the transformations are very painful. A Moon!Boggart should
> induce the feelings of pain and panic that the real moon does,
> though it probably wouldn't have the power to cause a full
> transformation.
> 
> If, on the other hand Lupin's greatest fear is that information 
inside
> a prophecy orb may get out....  what reaction would you  expect?

Jen: My first thought is there's a huge error in the movie-that-must-
not-be-named if Lupin's boggart is not the moon. That's all I can 
say about that ;).

As to why Lupin feels no effects and Harry faints in the face of the 
Boggart!Dementor, I'd say it's all about practice. Lupin tells Harry 
in POA the boggart is 'the closest thing to a dementor' they can 
practice with. That makes it sound like a boggart comes in second to 
a real dementor for it's power.

We saw in GOF what a little bit of practice can do against a 
boggart. Harry produces a Patronus in the maze, much more easily 
than in OOTP when he's facing two real dementors. And after he 
produces the stag and the dementor 'trips', Harry performs the 
Riddikulus spell quickly and with little effot, much like Lupin in 
POA.

Jen