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

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Potioncat wrote:
"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."
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CH3ed:
You're right indeed! I totally forgot. I think it was in canon in the 
Shrieking Shack scene where Hermione was outraged with Lupin hugging 
Sirius and screamed that she had kept his being a werewolf a secret. 
Lupin then told her the staff were told of it.

Thanks Leah for the bit about the Monty Python's cockroach cluster!! 
That might just be it. I'll have to go raid the local video store 
looking for that episode. 

Jen R. is right about Cuaron showing Lupin's boggart to be 
unmistakably a full moon in the PoA film. I really disliked the movie 
version of it. In the film Harry actually got to face the boggart 
(which then really turned into a dementor) briefly before Lupin 
realized it... Nothing like the cool Lupin of the text who had 
anticipated the matter before the start of the class and pre-solved it 
by having both Harry and Hermione answer questions before letting 
boggarts out without letting them face the monster (so he had good 
excuse for giving them the points like the rest of the class). Tho I 
do like the movie Lupin deflating the moon to get rid of it more than 
the text of having it turned into a cockroach (because I still don't 
get the joke there).  

CH3ed :O) wonders if Lupin didn't find the practice boggart while 
looking around Filch's office for the confiscated Marauders' Map.