Lupin, Snape, Wolfsbane

[Tina Smart]

No: HPFGUIDX 17848

>"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!)"

>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.

Ok, I'm not sure if you're both referring to a specific incident, but this 
is how I understood this part of the story:
Lupin as a student got sent to that "haunted house" at Hogsmede for his 
monthly transformation.
JK was blunt about the wolfsbane potion being difficult to make, and above 
the level of an ordinary wizard. That it needed someone who was proficient 
at potions, which Snape is.
However, maybe when Lupin was a student there was not a teacher who could 
make this potion. And even if they could it might not have been invented 
yet. There is some detail in one of the books about the division of the 
ministry that works on trying out new magics and the like.
So he got sent to the house. The marauderers went there to keep him company, 
it must have been boring...?
So then when he is a teacher, Snape is handy to make the potion for him when 
it's needed.
This however, does not explain how he got through his life between school 
and teaching. Maybe he was a hermit, I cannot remember JK's explaination.
So, in any case, if you are talking of a specific incident I would like to 
know the reference. I would be interested to reread this part.

Tina.
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