CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 28, Snape's worst memory

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 116472


>> Potioncat:
> 
>> Not to beat a dead cockroach, myself...I still see a connection 
>> between this exploding jar of cockroaches and Lupin's boggart 
>> orb disolving into a cockroach.  I just don't know what it is.

> Pippin:
> It could be, along with the cockroach clusters, a reminder that 
> cockroaches are disgusting rather than funny, and thus a hint 
> that Lupin, like Molly, was having trouble thinking of a way to 
> make his boggart amusing. 

But 'cockroach cluster' *is* funny, at least to any Monty Python fans 
who happen to be listening in...okay, funny in a somewhat gross kind 
of way, but I always laugh when the poor secondary inspector gets 
violently sick in his hat.

There's surely something funny about the moon turning into a 
cockroach.  It's impossible to alter the face of the moon (as much as 
we, in college, once tried), but one can smush a cockroach under the 
foot with a very gratifying *crunch*.  Lupin's rather dry sense of 
humor would appreciate that.

-Nora's favorite Monty Python sketch is 'The North Minehead By-
Election'