Quick question- Lupin's resignation

[drliss at comcast.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 107449

Pippin:

"As long as I take [the potion] in the week preceding the full 
moon, I keep my mind when I transform...."
-PoA Ch 18 

Lupin drinks his potion a week before his transformation in 
chapter 8, and it seems only one dose is mandatory. ("I made an 
entire cauldronful," Snape continued, "if you need more."
"I should probably take some again tomorrow") 

So Lupin not only didn't take his potion the night of the Shack, but 
for six preceding nights--what was he supposed to be upset 
about then?

Pippin
who thinks Lupin did take his potion, and was in his right-but 
-ever-so-evil mind when he transformed.


Lissa

Okay, this is an ever-so-wonderful Lupin-would-so-thank-me comparison, but I got the impression it was kind of like birth control pills.  Take it every day, at the same time, and it's effective.  Forget one pill/one potion, and you run the risk of a decreased effectiveness.  (Maybe that's why it took so long for him to transform, too.)

Now if you'll excuse me, I must flee before a certain werewolf tears me apart for putting him on estrogen.

Liss

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