Lupin and Boggart+Legilimency

[olivier.fouquet+harry at m4x.org]

No: HPFGUIDX 113052

Snape is upset because everybody is saying what a
 > great teacher Lupin is and...wait for it...Lupin can't *do* the
 > riddikulus spell -- not successfully any way.
 >
 >  Lupin never manages to turn the orb into something funny,
 >   and he never uses Riddikulus to make the boggart explode.
 >
 > Pippin
 > wondering if this is the clue that was going to really annoy JKR if
 > somebody caught it

Olivier

Ah Pippin, I know you always suspect Lupin whenever something fishy 
happens, but here, isn't it a bit too far fetched?

Lupin does take care of Molly's boggart, does teach the spell very 
properly (which implies that he has at least some knowledge of it).

  He also seems quite knowledgeable as a student (reading in the 
pensieve scene, apparently not inferior to James and Sirius and a 
prefect). Wouldn't it be quite astonishing that someone mastering the 
Patronus charm (he does banish the Dementor in the Express) would not 
master a third-year spell?

It is true that in PoA he never destroys the Boggart. Why would he 
destroy it when it is such a nice practical test for students?

As a side note, I have a question for you. In PoA, flight of a the fat 
lady, when Lupin and Harry have tea, it is suggested (in the light of 
OoP) that Lupin reads Harry's mind.

"Harry looked at him. Lupin's eyes were twinkling.

"How did you know about that?" Harry asked. "Professor McGonagall told 
me," said Lupin, passing Harry a chipped mug of tea. "You're not 
worried, are you?"

"No," said Harry. He thought for a moment of telling Lupin about the 
dog he'd seen in Magnolia Crescent but decided not to. He didn't want 
Lupin to think he was a coward, especially since Lupin alreadv seemed 
to think he couldn't cope with a boggart. Something of Harry's thoughts 
seemed to have shown on his face, because Lupin said,

"Anything worrying you, Harry?"

If we accept that idea, it is fair to surmise that Lupin knows Sirius 
has met Harry.
Now, with my pro-Lupin mind, you guess what I make of that, but I was 
wondering if you had already considered it.

Olivier