About Lupin's boggart

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 129961

pippin_999 wrote:

>Many people have asked why there should be any doubt
>about the identity of Lupin's boggart.
>
>I would consider it solved, except that in OOP it's still being
>called a silvery orb
>---
>Lupin looked from Mrs. Weasley to the dead Harry on the 
>floor and seemed to understand in an instant. Pulling 
>out his own wand, he said, very firmly and clearly,
>"Riddikulus!"
>
>Harry's body vanished. A silvery orb hung in the air over 
>the spot where it had lain. Lupin waved his wand once
>more and the orb vanished in a puff of smoke.-- OOP ch 9
>----


This is only indirectly related, but this is actually something that's always bugged me about this scene...

AFTER Lupin says "Riddikulus", the boggart turns into the 
moon/orb/whatever-it's-supposed-to-be, then vanishes.

>From the canon of how boggarts work in the previous books, 
shouldn't the boggart have turned into an orb, THEN Lupin says "Riddikulus", THEN it turns into something funny (like 
Lupin's cockroach), THEN people laugh and they can capture it?

Not only is it out of order (becoming the thing feared after the 
Riddikulus incantation) but it's incomplete; there's nothing funny, 
there's no laughter.  He just 'waves his wand' and it vanishes.

Is this just me?

heather the buzzard