Remus and Sibyll sitting in a tree ( wasRe: Trelawny real...

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 120809


  
> Chancie:
>  
> Hmm... I never thought about that possibility before.  Perhaps if  
there is a 
> prophecy
> it may have something to do with Lupin being the HBP, but then 
again  maybe 
> not..
> I have always wondered why his boggart is discribed as an orb, 
personally I  
> would
> think that more people than just Hermione would notice it was a  
moon. It's 
> not 
> like they haven't all seen it before.  We know boggarts show 
detail  from the 
> descriptions
> of when others encounter one.  So wouldn't others see the moon  
craters, or 
> other equally 
> defining characteristics?
>  

Potioncat:
Someone else came up with the idea, oh, over a year ago, that Lupin's 
boggart was a prophecy orb, not a moon.  The more I argued against 
prophecy orb, the less convinced I became with the "moon" as boggart. 
It's Lupin, after all who tells us it's a moon. It's never described 
as a moon.

To me the real puzzle was the cockroach.  But as I was reading PoA, I 
saw how much and how often Trelawney was described in different bug-
like ways.  To me it would fit that if Lupin's boggart is a prophecy 
orb, turning it into a parody of Trelawney might banish it for him.