Lupin's boggart (was: Remus and Sibyll sitting in a tree)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 121032


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
>  
>> So, why in OoP is it still called an orb? And in OoP, it seems to 
> turn into a puff of smoke rather than a cockroach?  

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> And I wonder if the cockroach is completely unimportant since the 
> movie!boggart changed into a deflated balloon. Much funnier!
> 
Renee:
If the cockroach is completely unimportant because the movie!boggart 
changed into a balloon, the shape of Lupin's boggart is either
1) also completely important to the plot, or JKR would have seen to 
it that it remained more ambiguous in the movie 
2)a full moon after all, because that's what it is in the movie, 
with clouds and all

And why it is still called an orb in OoP? Perhaps because it's not 
really a full moon - it doesn't make Lupin transform. Or because to 
Harry, it's never more than an orb; after all, it's not his boggart.

Renee