Remus and the moon

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 22241

Craig wrote:

> Um, because the clouds can't obstruct all the moon's light from
> hitting the earth unless the clouds cover about half the globe.

I did think of that.  But let's say werewolves transform the moment 
the full moon rises, *and actually shines*, wherever they happen to 
be.  If Scotland is under heavy cloud cover the entire evening, Lupin 
gets a month off.

Drat, I just found a hole, though.  Surely he doesn't turn *back* when 
the moon goes back under cloud cover.  If you're a werewolf, once the 
moonlight hits the earth wherever you are, you transform and don't 
recover 'til the morning.  The moon hasn't been under cloud cover the 
entire evening:  "the moon drifted in and out of sight behind the 
shifting clouds" while timeturning Harry and Hermione were waiting for 
everyone to emerge from the Whomping Willow (PoA 21).  So Lupin would 
have transformed the first time the clouds moved away, sometime during 
the Shack scene, and stayed transformed.

Damn.

Amy Z

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