Lupin and the Setting Sun

[Bugg]

No: HPFGUIDX 17719

Doesn't the time coinside with the setting sun and not just 
the full moon? Buckbeak was to be executed at sundown. The 
first group moved into the tunnel before sundown. Snape would 
have gone to look for Lupin before sundown. Harry and Hermione 
took Buckbeak before sundown and hid in the forest. Lupin 
turned into a werewolf when he saw the full moon, at sundown. 

Bugg 


> Amy Z wrote:
> It just doesn't work that Lupin only transforms when actually 
exposed to the moon. 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? 
> 
> mdartagnan at y... wrote: 
> 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
>