Question about Boggarts (WAS: About Werewolves)

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48244

srsiriusblack at aol.com writes:
> Werewolves appear on the night of a full moon in a lunar cycle. Perhaps it 
> is 
> not the Moon that actually causes the transformation, but that the night of 
> the full moon coincides with the night of the transformation

Me:

Good point.  I can see why this is confusing. At the end of PoA Lupin 
transforms when he comes out into the light of the Moon, which makes it 
*appear* that the moonlight triggered the transformation, however all the 
other evidence suggests that he does not need to be exposed to moonlight to 
transform.  Therefore, it was just a coincidence that he transformed at that 
moment in PoA.  

We know when he was a student, Lupin was smuggled to the Shrieking Shack 
every month to transform.  He was indoors and he still transformed.  Also I 
assume wherever he went to transform at Hogwarts was indoors too.  Didn't he 
say he curled up in his quarters at Hogwarts or something? So it is not just 
the light of the full Moon that triggers the transformation.  It's "that time 
of the month." 

Audra


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