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

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 120797


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

<snip discussion of Lupin's boggart as prophecy orb>

> 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.  

Yes, that last is a bit of a problem.

But I wonder: am I the only person who, when the boggart was 
revealed, chuckled at Lupin's wit?  Think about it: the moon, hanging 
full in the sky, unreachable, untouchable--it was always a Scavenger 
Hunt Impossible Item to "permanently alter the face of the moon (no 
points for blowing it up)".  Compared to that, a cockroach--lowly and 
common, but more importantly, crunchable under foot.  WHACK!

Lupin sure wishes the moon, which rules his life, were so 
gratifyingly disposable-of.  And that makes the best sense for me, at 
least.

-Nora waves at Pippin from afar and idly but good-naturedly wonders 
what will happen if ESE!Lupin is completely nuked next book, right 
before the big get-together