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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 148014

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> 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.


Potioncat:
The Hogwarts staff had been told about Lupin. (I wish I had the canon 
for it, but I don't recall where in PoA it shows up.) Which makes 
McGonagall's barb all the sharper when she says Trelawney should have 
known Lupin was ill. She should have known even without her inner eye.

I was once strongly in favor of Lupin's Boggart being an orb and the  
moon as a red herring. Now I'm less sure. Some of JKR's misdirections 
are intended for just one book. I do hope, no matter how it turns 
out, that JKR has Lupin explain to us the  humor of a cockroach.

Potioncat, whose youngest pronounces Igor Karkaroff as "Icky 
Cockroach."  BTW, and for a sort of HP reason, does anyone know the 
Gaelic word for seal?