Sleepy Lupin cont

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Sorry, I accidentally clicked on the send when trying to get this back from 
under the lunar chart

In a message dated 16/01/02 00:21:41 GMT Standard Time, lipglossusa at yahoo.com 
writes:

> I too have wondered about whether Lupin was really asleep or not on 
> the infamous train ride.  At first I thought the reason he was so 
> exhausted was because he had been up all night in his werewolf state, 
> probably locked up in a room somewhere, breaking furniture.
> But I've since reread the previous chapter carefully, when Harry 
> goes to bed in his room at the Leaky Caldron and there's no mention 
> of a full moon the night before.  Of course it could have been a full 
> moon outside and Harry just doesn't notice because he's thinking 
> about Sirius Black.  But why didn't JKR throw this detail in anyway, 
> if she wanted this to be the explanation? After all, there are many 
> things that happen that the reader notices but Harry doesn't.
> 
> 

I too, had thought he was sleeping off a werewolf attack in the previous few 
days.
I thiought I'd try and work it ou, bearing in mind that we know from Snape's 
bringing of the Wolfsbane potion to Lupin on Oct 31 and that Lupin expected 
to need some more the next day, that a full moon was imminent. By that 
reckoning, I worked out that there should have been a full moon some time in 
the week from  Sept 5 onwards, so that the train journey was actually just 
*before* a potential transformation.

THEN, I hit on a web site that gives the phases of the moon for any given 
year. PoA is set in 1993/4 isn't it?
The full moon for Oct 93 seems to be Oct 30 and for Sept, Sep 30 and possibly 
Sep 1, or it *could* be Aug 31, hard to tell.

Aug 31 ties in with his sleeping on the train, but means he should have 
finished with being wolfish by Hallowe'en, so JKR doesn't seem to be using 
the real lunar calendar.
On the other hand , if we go back to the first theory, what is all the 
sleeping about?
I am now thoroughly confused.

Eloise, who's worried she's turning into a LOON



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