Moon orb? (was Remus, Sibyl and a lot of other stuff)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 121033


> Julia here:
> You know, while reading the posts about Lupin's boggart I thought 
it 
> can't be nothing else but moon too. But know I'm almost sure that 
it 
> can't be moon. Why? (apart from the fact that I can't understand 
why 
> he should be afraid of the moon... after so long it should be a 
> normal thing in his life...) I was surprised that no one has came 
up 
> with it yet (or maybe someone has?)
> 
> The orb which we see in a scene in PoA can't be moon because it 
> doesn't affect Lupin in a way real moon affects him. According to 
> Harry's boggart - Dementor, it (boggart) behaves in the same way as 
> the real one. When Harry sees his boggart he can feel as if the 
real 
> Dementor was approaching. He hears the voices in his head and so 
> on... So why Lupin's boggart doesn't affect Lupin? Why he doesn't 
> change into a werewolf? It'd seem logical after all...

Finwitch:

I think it really WAS the Moon but it's very different from the REAL 
moon: it's present indoors, not up in the sky. It's also much smaller 
than the REAL moon, it didn't have Moon's gravity... It was just 
something that looked like a moon, but wasn't one.

Both Boggart and Dementor try influence emotions, so I suppose it's 
easy enough. Nor did Harry's boggart attempt to admister the kiss - I 
think it can't - Boggarts cannot eat souls.

Anyway, it's doubtful that Moon causes Lupin's transformation, as it 
may only indicate the time (which happens to be exactly one moon 
since the last time) of it.

The Moon orbs Harry saw-- 3D maps of the moon, perhaps?

Finwitch