Mood:  quizzical

I can't sleep yet, so here you go, more random thoughts:

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, we see that a boggart will take on all of the characteristics of what a person fears. For example, Harry's dementor-boggart made the room cold and caused Harry to pass out with his mother's scream in his head. So shouldn't Remus's moon-boggart should have triggered his transformation?

Unlike most of my random thoughts, I'm going to take the time to think of an actual answer. While the boggart may have tried to act like the moon, and have the characteristics of the moon, it is non really the moon. The boggart-dementor wasn't as powerful as the actual thing. And maybe a boggart can only replicate physical characteristics, such as the appearance, and ability to make everything cold. Not sure that the ability to turn a man into a giant wolf is a physical characteristic. So my final conclusion is that just because it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, doesn't make it a duck. Not sure if that can hold up, but whatever.