Lupin's Boggart (PoA, U.S. Paperback, Pgs. 138-139.)

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Toni:
> Now, I had always assummed that the boggart turned into the 
moon for  Lupin, although I have read some of your posts which 
suggest that  Lavender was correct when she wondered why he 
was frightened of  crystal balls.  Either way, for the life of me I 
have not been able  to figure out why turning either the moon (or 
a crystal ball for that matter) into a cockroach would make it 
funny.<
> 

Pippin:
Hi, Toni! It's my highly unpopular theory that the boggart was the 
prophecy orb, and it turned into a cockroach because the spell 
failed.  Lupin couldn't think of a way to make the prophecy funny. 
If you page through canon you'll find that Lupin, though he makes 
a boggart vanish several times, never seems to perform 
riddikulus with clearcut success. When he does it in OOP, for 
example, the boggart turns into the silvery orb.

 But the most popular theory is that the boggart is indeed the full 
moon, and it turned into a cockroach because  a harmless but 
disgusting creature is funnier than a werewolf.

Pippin