Lupin and the Full Moon

[Bugg]

No: HPFGUIDX 17762

Maybe ?????? 
Snape has been working on the potion. He has created a version 
that reduces the effects to direct moon exposure. Although Lupin  
did not take any that night he may of had enough still in his 
system. Okay maybe not.  

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At 03:36 AM 4/26/01 +0000, mdartagnan at y... wrote:
>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.
> 

Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> Since astronomically speaking "Full Moon" is an instantaneous 
event (when the moon is in exact opposition to the sun).  Your 
theory "Lunar influence" makes sense.  Maybe out in the open on 
a clear night he transform when the moon is 95% Full, but the moon 
has to be 98%or 99% Full to break through barriers like walls and 
clouds.
>> Dave 

I would also like to thank Gwen for her post, I knew I should 
have typed just after sundown instead of at sundown. However, I 
did not realize how much later it was that Lupin saw the moon. 

Bugg - who is still trying to help JKR out.   

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Gwen wrote:
> "[Hermione] looked nervously over her shoulder into the 
depths of the forest. The sun was setting now." 
> 
> They move to the forest to hide buckbeak better. They witness 
Sirius dragging Ron into the willow, and watch as their past 
selves follow.
> 
> A few minutes later, Lupin comes through:
> 
> "they saw another figure sprinting down the stone steps and 
haring toward the Willow. Harry looked up at the sky. Clouds 
were obscuring the moon completely."
> 
> So the sun was down and the moon was up when he came across 
the first time.
> Sorry.
> 
> Over the next hour, Harry and Hermione wait. The only reference 
to the moon is that "The moon drifted in and out of sight behind the 
shifting clouds." 
> 
> Then, in agreement with the previous description of this episode
(from Chapter Twenty), the crew comes out of the Willow.  In 20, 
it's described thus: "The grounds were very dark now; the only light 
came from the distant windows of the castle."
> 
> "And then--
> "A cloud shifted. There were suddenly dim shadows on the ground.
Their party was bathed in moonlight."
> 
> And in Twenty-One: "[Harry] glanced up at the sky. Any moment 
now, that cloud was going to move aside and show the moon...."
> 
> "The moon slid out from behind its cloud. They saw the tiny 
figures across the grounds stop. Then they saw the movement--
> "'There goes Lupin,' Hermione whispered."
..... 

> Oh, well. Maybe it really is a Flint, but if it is, it's a very 
carefully constructed and consistent one (given her attention to 
timing and making sure no direct moonlight hit him prior to the 
Change).
> 
> Gwendolyn Grace