[HPforGrownups] RE: werewolf/fanfic/speculation / Hermione's name / Snape

[Lucy Austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 31256

>>Mahoney wrote:

>> Firstly, er, what is the plot-hole-that-must-not-be-named?

>It's in PoA (book 3). As summarised in the Lexicon: "Why did Lupin 
transform into a werewolf only when the full moon came out from 
behind the clouds? Don't werewolves automatically change shape at the 
full moon, whether or not there are clouds? ... 

>"JKR's partial answer: "The moon wasn't up when he entered the 
Shrieking Shack." (Sch2)" and even if the moon wasn't up yet when he 
entered the Shack, why didn't he transform *inside* the Shack *when* 
the moon rose? (Uh, Sch2 is a citation to a Scholatic website chat 
which is listed in Sources of the Lexicon.)

Just to confirm my L.O.O.N.iness, I asked my boyfriend on that one, and he says that in June the moon would actually be rising before dark, and it's definitely nearly dark before they even go into the Shack. Definitely a large plot hole there, but never mind! There's a fanfic around somewhere which suggests he was trying a new variant of Wolfsbane Potion which delayed the transformation!

Lucy, off to work now - lots of Harry Potter fanfic to be read!


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