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

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 39356

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> 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.
> 

If you look in the almanac, it will tell you not only the day of the
full moon but the precise *time*. Apparently, the moon is truly full
for only a few minutes before it begins to wane.

I'm thinking that Lupin transforms at *that* moment, so if the moon
was out beforehand (obscured by clouds) but not truly full, it
wouldn't affect him.  And it wouldn't necessarily be midnight.

Boy, wasn't JKR lucky the clouds parted at exactly the same moment the
moon became full!

Furthermore, the full moon represents a relationship between the
earth, sun, and moon.  The boggart moon can't replicate this.  So
that's why the boggart moon doesn't effect a transformation.  That the
boggart Dementor can do dementor things is what seems weird to me.

--Dicentra