Lupin and the Full Moon

[mdartagnan at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17710

Hello. ^^


Amy Z wrote:

> It just doesn't work that Lupin only transforms when actually 
> exposed to the moon. 

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> Or are you proposing that even if he's indoors, if the moon is out, 
> he's a wolf, and if the moon is behind a cloud, he goes back to being 
> a man? 


I've just came up with a theory. It's full of holes, but... 

We know Remus transforms into a wolf regardless if he's indoors or 
outdoors. He claimed that, thanks to the Wolfsbane Potion, he turns 
into a harmless wolf and stays inside his office. I can't recall if the 
windows of the Shrieking Shack were covered as well. 

The only thing that *might* explain why on PoA he transforms into a 
wolf until the moonlight touches him might be the time at which the 
change takes place. Maybe when he's indoors, the change takes place 
until the Lunar influence is just too strong to be avoided —maybe when 
the Moon reaches its zenith (eh... is this word well written?) or 
something like that. But being directly exposed to moonlight might 
trigger an immediate change —something Remus clearly forgot after many 
Full Moon indoors, or maybe he thought the night would remain cloudy 
for still some hours.

I told you this theory was full of holes. Maybe the change had 
something to do with the wolfsbane potion, as many fanfics suggest, or 
it's just a Flint. But it's fun to speculate.


Misbehave,
Marijose


"I don't break rules. I bend them —a lot."
Autobot Sideswipe, and then me.