Lupin, the Moon and the Bewitching Hour

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32765

> Hmm, well, as to the *exact* full moon being necessary...then when 
> would be the cut off point?  Why would he spend three days as a 
> werewolf if there is only one 'time' when the moon is actually full.  

I suppose this depends on how you see things.

I always though that Lupin was only ever a wolf for one night especially as we have the evidence at the end of the book: He becomes a wolf the night that HH save Sirius and we know he is roaming the FF because Dumbledore tells us so. Harry, Ron and Hermione leave the Hospital wing at "noon next day" and it is this Day that Harry goes to see Lupin because he has resigned and it is here when Lupin give him the map back etc. So he isn't a wolf for the full three days.
I always presumed he became human again when the sun came up. The way I explain his absence form lessons is that being a wolf took so much out of him that he had to take a couple of days of to recover enough to teach again. We know that it must take something out of him as Harry, Ron and Hermione continually notice that he looks weaker when he comes back after being "ill". He himself also tells us that it is very painful to become a werewolf, so I would presume he would have to rest and recuperate after the transformations.

> I.e., the seasonally sliding time of moonrise is irrelevant; 
> the whenever time of the werewolf physically catching sight of the 
> moon is irrelevant; and even the werewolf's knowledge of clock time 
> is irrelevant.  

I was trying to back you up on that. I too was saying that these things are irrelevant, but that the time is always fixed to when the moon is exactly full. I worked this out using what I mentioned above rather than this three day cycle as it is pretty obvious that Lupin is not a werewolf for three days by the ending (see above)

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