[HPforGrownups] Re: Moon and Lupin - Was Snape's Ahoy!

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 67218

 
Darrin said -
 
OK, this baffled me too, so I went to get PoA, and here is page 278 
UK.
 
Lupin threatens Peter and tells him not to move. They are outside the 
Willow. The grounds were dark, with the only light from the castle.
 
"Silently they tramped through the grounds, the castle lights growing 
slowly larger... And then --
 
A cloud shifted. There were suddenly dim shadows on the ground. Their 
party was bathed in moonlight."
 
THEN Lupin changed.
 
He didn't change until the light hit him. The moon was behind a 
cloud. It came out and he changed. So, by this logic, had the moon 
stayed behind a cloud until they got to the castle, Lupin might not 
have changed.
 
So, COULD he have stayed indoors in a windowless room??? That makes 
no sense whatsoever. Someone help!
  
Me -

According to an interview with JKR (the same one where she was asked about
which position James played on the Gryff quidditch team) she was asked why
Lupin didn't transform till he came out of the Shack and she said the moon
wasn't up then. Personally I think this was JKR-speak for he needed to
transform then for dramatic reasons just suspend disbelief :)

K