[HPforGrownups] Full moon question for the folklorists

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 97490

Shaun:

> You won't get a situation where you have a near full moon in
> daylight *without* the night having a full moon.
>
> To bring this onto Harry Potter - I'm currently writing a longish
> post attempting to analyse all astronomical references in Harry
> Potter - is there any real interest in this? I've done fairly large
> posts before (most recently looking at the match or lack thereof
> between what Harry saw during his Astronomy exam and the actual
> night sky over Hogwarts on that date) and a couple of people took
> me to task for posting it here, saying it was too long. I don't
> really agree but I don't want to annoy people unnecessarily.

*laughs* So annoying people necessarily is fine?

I, for one, would be interested in reading it. Alternately, you could write
it up essay-style and stick it into the files, which would allow readers to
access it in Word format (because from what I recall of your earlier post, I
wished you could have had diagrams to illustrate). Or do both. [I also think
you should do up a paper and submit it to one of the conferences popping up
like mushrooms across the landscape.]

~Amanda, speaking for herself