lupin and his transformations...

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

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<mmm_poptarts at m...> wrote:
> Ok, this is my first post here so be kind please!
> 
> In PoA Lupin gets the potion from Snape to keep from transforming.  
> Lupin is in human form when he recives the potion from Snape.  
> As we know from the Shrieking Shack scene, Lupin didn't transform 
> until he was outside in the moonlight.  This being confirmed by 
> JKR herself. 
>
> Now my question is this, why, if Lupin didnt transform until night 
> fall in the moonlight, ... ... ...
> 
> ...edited...
>
> -cracker (who thinks she did pretty good for her first post!)


bboy_mn comments:

Well, you have a good point and yes, it's been brought up before, but 
don't let that discourage you. There is very little that hasn't been 
brought up before.

We can call this one of two thing; 1.)a mistake, 2.) artistic license.

It is a valid inconsistency, so all we can do is create possible 
explanations to account for it.

One person recently pointed out that for an astronomical perspective, 
despite the fact that we may see what appears to be a full moon, the 
moon is officially full at a very specific time, and stay officially 
full for a very specific period of time. Our eye see a full moon for a 
much greater period that the official time. So the cloud moved aside 
just as the moon reached it's official fullness, forcing Lupin to 
transform. That's one man theory. "One Man", if you are still around, 
maybe you can explain it better.

My personal theory is based a lot less on fact than on my desperate 
attempt to resolve the inconsistency. Over the course of the year, 
during which Lupin was consistently taking the Wolfsbane potion, he 
was getting better. His window of illness covered less time as the 
treatment progressed, and the symptoms were less severe. Near the end, 
as he described, he simply transformed into a regular wolf and curled 
up by the fire and waited it out.

So, while I'm sure he was feeling poorly, and was looking forward to 
taking his potion and locking himself in his room, when he saw what 
was happening on the map, those thoughts wee pushed from his mind by 
the sight of a long dead friend on the Hogwarts ground and a friend 
who was now an escaped notorious criminal. It was further pushed from 
his mind when he saw that Harry and his friends were in trouble. He 
rushed to there aid with no though to what night it was. He ran on 
pure adrenalin (sorry about the spelling) and his residual Wolfsbane 
potion. But when the moon reached it peak of fullness, and the moon 
light struck him, no amount of adrenalin or residual Wolfsbane could 
hold back the transformation. He got luck for a while, but eventually 
his luck ran out.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn