Remus and Sibyll sitting in a tree ( wasRe: Trelawny really bugs me...

[khinterberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 120791


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:

> 
> Potioncat:
> I'm re-reading PoA and something has been nagging at me. I'm not 
> really ready to offer up this idea, but that's never stopped me 
> before.  
> 
> I assume your subject is on purpose...Trelawny really bugs you?
> Goes with all the bug like descriptions about her in PoA.
> 
> Her crystal ball is referred to as an orb. And for most of PoA, 
> Lupin's boggart is called an orb.  He ran from Trelawney when she 
> wanted to crystal gaze for him...
> 
> So how about this idea?  Lupin's Boggart is a prophecy orb (I don't 
> know why! Maybe he's afraid of Trelawney.  Maybe there's a prediction 
> about him that worries him. Maybe someone predicted he'd marry 
> Trelawny)  To make the orb amusing, he turns it into a cockroach. 
> That is, he  turns the prophecy orb into a bug, into Trelawney. 
> Because he thinks it's funny that she looks like a bug.

This is basically just a "me too" post, sorry about that, but this is
simply a wonderful idea, even if it turns out not to be true at all. 
It is the only explanation I've seen so far that can actually make a
bit of sense of Lupin's boggart when he turns it into a cockroach.  I
do like the idea that his boggart is a prophecy orb, which I know
people have said before, but my only possible problem with this would
be in the Shrieking Shack when Hermione says she figured out Lupin was
a werewolf, and he asked if she did it by figuring out what his
boggart was.  

khinterberg