*delurk* Re: Lupin and the moon

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 17833

Moon (Moon, eh? You SHOULD know!) wrote:
"All right, I've been lurking for a long time, but this topic will 
make me stay awake screaming any time.  There's nothing I can think 
of to make this not a plot hole, unless you want to subscribe to 
complex theories such as "Snape doctored the Wolfsbane Potion, and 
the moon wasn't really full that night," or somesuch.  It's a glaring 
error, for the painful reason that if all Lupin had to do to avoid 
transformation was stay indoors, there never would've been a need for 
Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs (heresy!)"

--Hi and welcome! Unfortunately I am not a list-elf or I'd be glad to 
do whatever they do (What DO they do?). Now I'm thinking that if I'm 
not an Elf I must be something REALLY bad...

Anyway you're absolutely right. I really want to explain it, but 
there doesn't seem to be an explanation does there? I'm certainly not 
satisfied with Jo's answer, which I think was asked by someone in 
this group. It's a glaring mistake, a Flint still stuck at hogwarts 
in his retirement years!

The only thing I've come up with is that maybe taking "Wolfsbane" 
over an extended period of time lessens the effects. However I still 
don't buy it.

"One more thing... it's a common misconception that the full moon 
rises before sunset in the summer.  It doesn't... This year's June 
full moon in Glasgow, Scotland, for example, rises at 10:29 pm while 
the sun sets at 9:55 pm.  Admittedly, there is still twilight, which 
is perhaps the cause of this belief.  If you go further north, past 
the Arctic Circle,  the full moon sometimes doesn't even rise in 
summer (corresponding to the sun not setting).  Tourists in Alaska 
sometimes show up wondering  what it'd be like to see the full moon 
and the midnight sun in the sky  at the same time... it doesn't 
happen.  Maybe Lupin should spend his  summers in Iceland?"

--This is something that confused me on first reading. Harry and 
Hermione went back three turns or three hours from five til' 
midnight. That would be 8:55 pm or 20:55. Surely by then it would at 
least be starting to get dark, and yet "...a stream of golden 
sunlight was falling across the paved floor from the open front 
doors. In my experience twilight does come later in Europe than in 
the states, but even so...

"If anyone comes up with a satisfying theory, my nights would be more 
peaceful... but I suspect JKR just figured we wouldn't notice.  And 
hey, it makes for a dramatic scene with the clouds... auughhh."

--Yes the great explanation device- plot. It can always be used and 
yet don't you hate to rely on it.

Once again welcome to the group!

Moon wrote:
"who is a planetary scientist and loves werewolves"
--Once again something I'm interested in but can't seem to translate 
into any viable career {{{{sigh}}}}

Scott 
Who tried to go stargazing tonight but it was far to fuggy. (Did I 
use that right?) ;-)