More Lupin and the moon

[Kristin]

No: HPFGUIDX 17804

Rita Prince Winston wrote:

> Second, even if the moon hadn't risen yet when Lupin entered the 
Shack (just as holidays happen on the convenient day of the week 
rather than according to the year of the action), it rose while he 
was in the Shack, so why didn't he transform while he was in the 
Shack? As someone already said, if he only transforms when outdoors, 
he wouldn't need Wolfsbane Potion, he could just stay inside that one 
night each month.
> 
> Third, even if the moon hadn't risen yet while Lupin was in the 
Shack, it had already risen behind clouds during their walk outdoors. 
Several people from Britain have pointed out that if Lupin doesn't 
transform if the Full Moon is covered by clouds, then there are more 
months that he doesn't transform than that he does.
> 
> Someone quoted a bunch of references to moonlight in which it didn't
> touch Lupin before the one where it touched him and he transformed, 
but I haven't found those quotes in the book yet.


Here's the quote:  "<snip> Once a month, I was smuggled out of the 
castle, into this place, to transform. The tree was placed at the 
tunnel mouth to stop anyone coming across me while I was 
dangerous."(pg. 353 PoA US)

So this shows that as a child Lupin transformed inside the Shierking 
Shack without being "touched" by the moonlight. As Rita, and I 
believe others have stated, the moon had risen while he was inside 
the Shack or at the very least inside the tunnel. Therefore Lupin 
should have changed during the confrontation with Snape and Peter and 
not after they exited the Whomping Willow. 

Even with the Wolfsbane potion he had still been tranforming inside 
the castle all year without moonlight. I still think JKR has a bit of 
plot hole here, it just wasn't convienent to the story for him to 
transform until they were outside. 

Just another of my 2 knuts.

  Cheers,
         Kristin