Lupin's Boggart (Was: Re: Etymology of Lupin's name)

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No: HPFGUIDX 148009

Snow wrote: 
"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."


CH3ed:
I have to go with Carol on this one. The boggart turns into a 
silvery orb (which could be mistaken for the prophecy orb, yes, but 
a lot more likely the moon) when it sees Lupin. Lupin riddikuluses 
the orb into a cockroach (the funny aspect of which eludes me 
there.... what is funny about a cockroach anyway?).

 Anyhow, Lupin's fun experience in the full-moon didn't last long at 
all. A few years at best since the other marauders didn't manage to 
become animagi until their 5th year, then James was killed not many 
years post grad. The vast majority of the time since he got bitten 
it is torture for him turning into a werewolf each full-moon. When 
we see him in PoA, he no longer has his best friends to run around 
with him because 1 was dead, 1 was thought dead, and the other was 
at Azkaban. I think with that in mind, it is more likely that when 
he thought of the full-moon (at least during PoA year) the prospect 
was painful rather than fun nostalgia.

 
Snow wrote:
" 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."


CH3ed:
Or he is acting unafraid while in front of a large audience of 
students. And he did turn the orb into something else, a 
cockroach. :O)


Snow:
"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."


CH3ed:
Nah, I think Hermione had it right and Parvati wrong. Lupin's 
boggart is the moon. I suspect he ran from Trelawney when she 
offered to crystal ball for him more because he doesn't want her 
seeing him as a werewolf in it.

CH3ed :O)