Lupin's boggart (was: Remus and Sibyll sitting in a tree)

[Patrick Jarrett]

No: HPFGUIDX 120910


> SSSusan:
> This may be a stupid thought, but isn't it possible that JKR was
> just trying to keep the information from the reader that it was the
> moon for a time?  So that we wouldn't guess too early that Lupin was
> a werewolf?
> 
> Also, presumably Lupin's boggart was fairly small -- at least as
> compared to something like Harry's dementor!boggart -- so if
> students weren't standing right beside Lupin, maybe they only saw
> the general shape & color?


Patrick:

Precisely my thoughts. There was a teacher who once told me to never
tell the reader everything until it was absolutely necessary and that
is what I think JKR was doing. The movie showed it as a moon with
clouds and sky but I had always thought of it more as SSSusan
described it.

-- Patrick