Lupin, the Moon and the Bewitching Hour

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 32749

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote: 
<snip: astronomical explanation of the full moon>

So in reality, the moon has risen (i.e., 6 PM) long before the kids set 
off for the Shrieking Shack (after dark, i.e., 10 PM), and even longer 
before Lupin arrives at the shack.

In PoA, Lupin transforms when the clouds break and the group (just 
emerging back on the Hogwarts grounds) is "bathed in moonlight" (PoA, 
p. 380 of the US version), not when the moon rises.

JKR, being a novelist, can make the sun, moon, and werewoves behave 
just as she pleases, of course.
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This is just off the top of my head, so it's proably got a few holes:

[non-Canon]
It's not just the full-moon. Werewolves in HP reality transform because 
the full moon generates a powerful magical ambient that stimulates the 
transformation. However, this magical ambient (from now on known as 
"wolf-air") takes time to reach is peak in which there is enough of 
this especial magical energy in the air to change men into wolves. 

How much time, I hear you ask? Yes, you guessed it: from the moment the 
moon appears over the horizont to Lupin's transformation. From then on, 
the influence of the moon is strong enough for the wolf-air to exist 
even during the times in which the moon is under the horizon. At the 
end of the full-moon period, the wolf-air diminishes quickly, thus 
returning werewolves to their human form.
[/non-Canon]

OK, it sounds a bit forced, but you have to consider that this 
"wolf-air" (whatever is really called) DOES exist. In some countries 
(Switzerland, I think) it is consider an atenuant to a crime having 
comitted it during full-moon nights. This fact was known in ancient 
times, and is probably the origin of the werewolves mythology in the 
first place.

Anyway, that's my colaboration to swimmerseyelids, although I hope we 
can convince Tabouli to make a new one which takes this newest theory 
into account.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf