[HPforGrownups] Etymology of Lupin's name (Was: The Names of the Books and the Teachers . . .)

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 148003

Carol snipped:



However, I did want to comment on this one point. Lupin doesn't "pine
for" the moon; he fears and hates it. The full moon is his Boggart
because it represents his fear of the painful monthly transformation
(which could have lethal consequences if he bites someone).

Snow:



I thought that when you are fighting a boggart you turned the object that
you feared into something you thought was funny in order to confuse the
boggart. The full moon would have been funny to Lupin because he remembered
that it was "the best times of his life" when he transformed with his
friends.



Some think that what he truly saw was a prophecy orb, which is very like the
shape and color of the moon. If it is the orb that Lupin fears then all he
has to do is change the size and think happy thoughts about the good old
times when the full moon gave him such good times.



Isn't this what happened in the boggart lesson… you don't make the object
that you fear go away but rather turn it into something less fearful. When
Lupin finished the boggart off with Riddikulus, he said it almost "lazily"
which would represent that he turned the object of his fears into something
that he was not afraid of.



Also in the boggart lesson the shape of his object is referred to (by
Parvarti) as an orb but in the shack Lupin asks Hermione if she noticed that
his boggart was the full moon. So if his counter (or the thing that he
doesn't fear; his boggart) is the full moon… then the thing that the boggart
saw as fear in him was an orb. This also fits with why Lupin ran from
Trelawney.



Snow


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