[HPforGrownups] Re: Werewolf Theories (WAS Sappy

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 32681

Greetings from Andrew!

A short reply, in re real world lyncanthropy/magick...

{snip}

> > Slon wrote:
> > <snip book exerpts regarding Lupin's
transformation>
> >
> > > Now, from all this, we can clearly see that
> > Lupin was outside when the moon was up, but didn't transform because
> > the moon was hidden behind clouds.  It is only when the clouds shift
> > and he is touched by moonlight that he transforms.

> > --- cindysphynx <cindysphynx at home.com> wrote:
> > Hmmm, I know there has been a lot of discussion
> > about this in the past.  I think the upshot is that the way JKR
> > wrote these transformation scenes is somewhat illogical
> > because if Lupin has to be touched by the moon to transform, then all he'd
> > have to do is park himself in a dark closet to avoid the problem
> > altogether.  Elizabeth's theory solves that problem because he
> > can't hide in a closet because he is drawn to the moon, of course.
> > But that requires  me to believe that moonlight is streaming into the
> > Shrieking Shack, which I'm not buying just yet.


In Romany legend, the wereX (for there are many sorts;
wolves happen to be the 'poster children' of the
class, as it were) feels the rising of the Moon and
then seeks the light.  However, also per those
legends, even if the wereX is imprisoned in the dark,
it still changes simply because the Moon is full.

As for the modern magickal sense of this, I would say
that it is an application of the Rule of Similarity:
As the Moon changes, so does the wereX.
The actual syndrome is a case of the Rule of
Contagion.

Cheers,

Andrew

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