full moon

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51181

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L. <kethlenda at y...>"
<kethlenda at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Sushi wrote:
> > >          The full moon does not rise at sunset.  It rises at noon, 
> > > and sets at midnight, meaning that Lupin would have been 
> susceptible 
> > > at any point between those two times.  
> 
> Well, actually, I think the full moon does rise at sunset.  It would 
> rise at noon when it was a half moon, I think.  I have two pictures 
> from my last vacation, one of the setting sun, and one of the 
> rising moon taken just a few seconds later after I turned the 
> other direction.  
> 
> Kelly

bboy_mn:
There is someone here on the this list that is an expert on this
stuff, or at least compared to the rest of us, he/she is an expert.
Hopefull he/she will jump in an settle this. 

Since I have seen the moon in the daylight hours of late afternoon and
at other time seen the moon appear long after it was dark, I have to
assume that the moon rises and falls on a varying schedule just like
the sun. 

Tides are caused by the moon, and in ocean front cities, tides are
clearly tracked, new schedules being posted constantly to keep
swimmers and boats aware of the potential hazards that the tides can
cause. This again makes me believe the the rise and set of the moon
fluctuates enough that the average person can't predicted it; experts
have to post the current rise/fall time calcualtions for them. 

Our resident expert in a much older post indicated that just because
it is the night of a full moon, and that the moon is visible, doesn't
mean that the moon is full. There is a specific time on any given full
moon when the moon reaches 'FULL' and I assume there is a specific
length of time that it is considered full. 

Now relative to a werewolf, the moon influence on the night of a full
moon rather than the minute of the full moon, might be enough to
trigger the effect. Also, we don't really know if it is merely the
phase of the moon or the actual presents of moonlight or a combination
of these factors. 

Lupin could have had some resistance built up in the wolfsbane potion,
but give the flow of adreniline that night, when he was finaly struck
by actual moonlight, he resistance was completely desolved. Not say
that happpened, just speculating on possibilities and straying from my
point.

Back to the point, I think, and I hope our resident expert will
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the moon rises and fall on a
varying but predictable schedule just like the sun.

Just a thought. Better men than I know the true answer, perhaps we
will hear from them.

bboy_mn