TAGS and moonlight (was T.A.G.S. re-opens for 2002 with another long acronym

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 32771

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "oz_widgeon" <Littlered32773 at y...> wrote:
<snip: calculations on the hour of Lupion's transformation>  
> It's really too bad.  If only it had been, say 5 minutes to 1, 
> instead of midnight, then the whole "witching hour" idea would make 
> perfect sense and be very logical.  Sadly, it just doesn't work.
 
> Slon (who feels much better and is heartily sick of Jell-O)
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Doesn't it? I actually believe it works quite well:

The fact is that, during the summer months, Western Europe works at 
GMT+2, which means that, when in Spain it's 12:00, our watches say it's 
2:00 (the political reasons for this are quite obscure, and I'm not 
going to comment on this). Of course, England is different and so it 
only works at GMT+1, even though they are both more or less in the same 
meridians.

This means that, when England's muggle's world is getting close to 
1:00, the natural world is getting close to midnight. We know that the 
Wizard world is sinchronized with the muggle world, because the 
Hogwart's train departs at 10:00 in both worlds.

Thus, the theory works even though the watches don't (after all, they 
never work at Hogwarts).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf