NixThe Bewitching Hour, It's The Moon I Tell Ya! /Lupin&Potions/The Boggart Moon

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 39353

Aldrea wrote (about the Bewitching Hour):

> Afraid this is where the theory falls apart.  We do, infact, know 
> that it was BEFORE midnight.  Atleast an hour before midnight, I'd 
> say.  Canon definately supports this.
> 
> *"I am going to lock you in. It is-" [Dumbledore] consulted his 
> watch, "five minutes to midnight."* PoA, US Edition, Paperback, 
Pg. 
> 393

Hmmm.  What would Mahoney say?

<wrinkles brow, concentrates hard>

Actually, the term "Bewitching Hour" is a bit misleading.  In 
Mahoney's original example, she used midnight as the Bewitching Hour 
as a convenient example.  But the theory doesn't require that it be 
midnight.  The Bewitching Hour (which might not even an hour, BTW) 
is simply whatever time it is that triggers Lupin's transformation.  
It might be 11:30, it might be 2:00 a.m.  Who knows?  But it does 
not have to be midnight, and on the night in question, it wasn't 
midnight.

So what was the time of the Bewitching Hour that night?  That's 
easy!  The Bewitching Hour occurred at precisely . . . the moment 
that Lupin transformed.  ;-)

It's Air-Tight, I tell ya!  ;-)

Cindy (who thinks hunger might be based solely on the position of 
the sun in the sky, which would explain why she eats all day)