Help with Lupin's boggart / Cockroaches

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 97695

Carol wrote:
Despite McGonagall's skepticism, this prediction, like the one 
about someone leaving the class around Easter, is at least partially
accurate since Lupin is no longer a teacher five months later. But
maybe there's more to it. Why *did* Lupin "positively flee" unless 
he was afraid of his own future?

> Potioncat:
> Just to clarify, Carol, you vote yes for moon-boggart, and yes for 
> afraid of future?
> 
> BTW, in OoP, do readers think he vanished his boggart differently 
> than in PoA or that JKR just used a short-hand to describe the 
> situation?  It seems to me we see a shorted version in another 
> boggart scene too, but I can't place it.

Carol again:
What, my response betrays some confusion? Or confused you? ;-)
Actually, I do think it's a moon boggart because he's a werewolf and
his transformations are terrible and painful; he's afraid both of
being "outed" and of harming someone in his moon-caused madness
(lunacy). I also don't think he would lie about his boggart, however
weak he may be on occasion. But I'm also presenting the evidence for
crystal balls, which I think are red herrings in their original
context but *could* also indicate a (non-boggart) discomfort about the
future that we're supposed to notice on subsequent readings. In other
words, the crystal ball references are intended to mislead us in PoA
so we don't know he's a werewolf, but nevertheless they suggest that
Lupin has cause to fear the future and may not survive till the end of
the series. (I think we should keep an eye on Trelawney's predictions,
too. Just because the reason-oriented McGonagall scoffs at them
doesn't mean that all of them are wrong; it's like Hermione and Luna
on a grown-up level.)

I think that other reference to Lupin's boggart being unceremoniously
dismissed without a perceptible Riddikulus spell is in one of the
boggart!dementor lessons in PoA, possibly the one where Harry hears
James. (And yes, I do think it's James. He would know if it was Lupin.)

Carol, who is probably trying to have it both ways in this post
because she sees both sides