Sleepy Lupin cont

[lipglossusa]

No: HPFGUIDX 33803

Eloise wrote:

> 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.
> 

Okay, I guess I have to reject my "Lupin is tired from a werewolf 
transformation" theory.  But I do think that applying our muggle 
calendar to the HP world makes us run into all sorts of problems, 
especially since the timeline established in CoS is debatable (the 
Lexicon goes into more detail on that.)  

So, either Lupin was really asleep (tired from howling at the moon 
all night, up late partying at the Leaky Cauldron) or he's just 
faking it.  OR, maybe he took a sleeping potion (like the one Harry 
takes in GoF) before he got on the train so he wouldn't have to sit 
through a long train ride with a bunch of loud teenagers.  

Marina, who adores Remus and will be very put-out if he doesn't come 
back in book five.