worse than a vampire

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 90185

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> 
wrote:
>x> 
> If the cockroach is associated with Lupin's Boggart, then the 
> cockroach is connected with the orb. The amusement has to do with 
> the orb and not with Snape. Right??? I'm asking if that would be 
> correct. At least that's how I'm reading it.
> 
> Why would it be amusing for the moon to turn into a cockroach? Or 
> why would it be amusing for a prophecy orb to turn into a 
cockroach? 
> I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever that person finds 
> amusing is still associated with that fear. It's the orb and 
> cockroaches. Not the cockroach and Snape. 
xx> 
> "K"

Potion Cat here:
Yes, the cockroach is associated with Lupin's boggart,because the 
cockroach or the orb/cockroach connection is funny to Lupin.  However,
originally I saw something else that made me think that Snape is 
associated with a cockroach or is a cockroach animagus. 

 No, I don't want to believe it and I've almost talked myself out of 
it.  But it was associated with the 2 events: Snape throwing 
cockroaches at Harry and with Lupin using cockroaches as a boggart 
defence. And it dawned on me that if Snape is a cockroach and Lupin 
knows it, then a cockroach would be funny to him. Particularly since 
Snape doesn't want him to teach at Hogwarts.   It also blends 
together in the the boggart class when Lupin's cockroach turns into 
Neville's Snape. 

A different idea I've had is that perhaps cockroaches are part of the 
potion that he takes to resist the moon.  So a simple cockroach 
defeating the power of the moon is funny. (If of course the orb is 
the moon.)

Potioncat