Lupin's Boggart was Boggart Snape

twobeaglegirl cquinn at mn.rr.com
Wed Sep 15 18:39:17 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 113060

Pippin wrote:
> <snip> Lupin can't *do* the riddikulus spell -- not successfully 
> any way.
> 
> PoA --  ch 7 Lupin turns the silvery orb into a cockroach. <snip>
> 
> ch 7 -- Neville uses Riddikulus to burst the boggart in pieces
> 
> ch 12 -- Lupin says Riddikulus and the boggart changes into a 
> silvery orb. Lupin forces it back into the packing case by 
> threatening it with his wand.
> 
> GoF ch 31 -- Harry uses Riddikulus to explode a boggart in a wisp 
> of smoke
> 
> OOP ch 9 -- Lupin says Riddikulus "very firmly and clearly." The 
> boggart turns into "a silvery orb". He then waves his wand again 
> and the orb "vanishes in a puff of smoke."
> 
> Lupin never manages to turn the orb into something funny, and he 
> never uses Riddikulus to make the boggart explode. <snip>


In Ootp, isn't it Lupin who makes the boggart explode and disappear 
(with the Riddikulus hex) at Grimmauld place (when Mrs. Weasley 
keeps seeing her dead family)?  Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't 
have my book with me.

--2beagles






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