Cloak Flint

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25005

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., linman6868 at a... wrote:
> 
> Oh, I don't know...I always assumed that after his frenzied run 
into 
> the Forbidden Forest during the climax, Lupin found the sense to 
> return to the Shrieking Shack, where he regained his human form and 
> made his way back to Hogwarts Castle, and -- oh -- what's this in 
my 
> pocket?  Oh, it's an Invisibility Cloak...that's right, it's 
> Harry's.  Well, I'd better give it back to him, hadn't I?
> 
> Ta-da!  But give Cindy a L.O.O.N. membership anyway; Lord knows I 
> would never pass the entrance exam....
> 
> Lisa I.

This is a tough crowd!  :)  But I don't think Lupin pulls himself 
together and returns to the Shrieking Shack as a werewolf.  He says 
that if he takes the potion, he "keeps his mind when he transforms."  
If he doesn't take it, he turns into a full-fledged monster.  Also, 
Dumbledore says Lupin is deep in the forest, unable to tell anyone 
anything.  Now, maybe Lupin's memory of the evening is a 
little "cloudy" (groan), so he just gets it wrong.

Actually, the Invisibility Cloak tells us something about werewolf 
transformation.  It seems clear that Lupin keeps the cloak with him 
when he transforms.  Otherwise, the Cloak would be on the ground, and 
would have been ripped to shreds as someone said earlier, or picked 
up by Snape.  

Cindy

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"I'm not going to be murdered,"  Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.  PoA, Ch. 4