What was Hagrid doing

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No: HPFGUIDX 132374

Dungrollin:
> > Begging your indulgences (for I am canon-less for the moment). 
> > Doesn't Lupin refer to a boggart taking the form of a flesh-eating 
> > slug? Otherwise, I'd agree that it could be read thataway. 

Ginger:  
> Aargh, I'm canonless this weekend too.  I believe he recalls 
> a boggart turning into half a slug, which would be a sl.  Having no 
> vowels, it cannot eat anything.
> 
> Unless it turned into an ug.  In which case, watch out.  


SSSusan:
Well, the truth isn't nearly as fun as the sl and the ug, but 
here 'tis:

"It's always best to have company when you're dealing with a boggart.  
He becomes confused.  Which should he become, a headless corpse or a 
flesh-eating slug?  I once saw a boggart make that very mistake -- 
tried to frighten two people at once and turned himself into half a 
slug."  [PoA, US hardback, p. 134]

Which does leave the us question:  Was it the sl or the ug that he 
turned himself into?

Siriusly Snapey Susan