worse than a vampire and Lupin's boggart

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90134

-"potioncat" wrote:
> 
> > I always wondered why Lupin used a cockroach as the funny 
> thing that  would help him fight off a boggart. But what if Snape 
> had also tried  to become an animagus as a teen and ended up 
> a cockroach, wouldn't Lupin find that funny?<<
> 
> If Snape could become a cockroach as a teen he would have 
> used this ability to escape the werewolf and the Prank as we 
> know it wouldn't have happened. 
> 
> I have a feeling the silvery orb is a prophecy orb and not the 
> moon at all. " Or did you realize that the boggart turned into the 
> full moon when it saw me?" is, like many other things that Lupin 
> says, equivocal.
> 
> Someone else suggested that a cockroach would be  a far less 
> ominous thing to find in the dark and dusty hall of prophecy.


Thank you, Pippin! As you know, I really like Snape (faults and all)
and the idea of his being a cockroach animagus is simply revolting. It
would ruin the books for me forever, far more than your vampire
theory. But you're certainly right. If he could turn into a cockroach
(or a bat, or any other kind of animal) he could have viewed
werewolf!Lupin in perfect safety.

I've always thought that turning the boggart into a cockroach is his
way of making his own boggart ridiculous. 

As for Lupin's boggart not being the full moon, I've wondered about
that, too. Not only does Lavender refer to it as a crystal ball after
the boggart lesson, I seem to recall a scene in which Sybil Trelawney
offers to read Lupin's future and he runs off in the opposite
direction. (If I didn't imagine this scene, it would have to be in
PoA.) But his words to Hermione in the Shrieking Shack seem to
indicate that it really is a full moon. And what would a werewolf fear
more than the moon that would reveal his true identity?

Carol