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

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 148067

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<littleleah at ...> wrote:
>
>  
> Jen R wrote:: 
> >About the cockroach thing, JKR must think they're funny as they 
show
> >up again when Harry is surprised to learn the password for DD's
> >office is 'cockroach cluster'. Is there some Scottish or British
> >humour in cockroaches or what?? In Texas they are the size and heft
> >of...well I can't think of a comparison but they're BIG, and after
> >one time of putting your shoe on and feeling a roach in there you
> >are too squicked out to laugh much. ;)
> 
> 
> Here in the UK, they're just not about in homes in the same numbers 
> as in the States- when I encountered them on a visit to  NY about 
20 
> years ago,  I'd never seen one before. I think that with increased 
> central heating, fast food etc that is changing, but they're not a 
> day to day occurence for most people here. 
> 
> IIRC, cockroach cluster was one of the flavours available in a box 
> of choolates which featured in a Monty Python sketch (another was 
> crunchy frog), so possibly the name emerged from JKR's subconscious 
> or DD was a Python fan.  Lupin (if he ever had access to muggle TV) 
> would certainly have been the right sort of age to appreciate the 
> show. 
> 
> Leah (tongue in cheek).
>


Goodness...

I never encountered a cockroach in the U.S. until I went to college 
in Washington, D.C....they certainly are not common outside of the 
big cities...

Susan