[HPforGrownups] Full moon question for the folklorists

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 97500

In a message dated 5/1/2004 10:47:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
justcarol67 at yahoo.com writes:
And September 1,
1993, the day of Hogwarts Express trip, was the exact date for the
full moon that month, so if JKR were following the calendar, he should
have been in full werewolf mode rather than recovering from a recent
transformation, which is how I read his tiredness, pallor, and
hoarseness (from howling) in that scene.

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Sherrie here:

If it's the same site I used for this same research a few months ago (for a 
discussion on the AOL boards), it should also list the time of precise 
"fullness".  IIRC, on 1 Sept 1993 that was somewhere around 2:00 AM - so by 11:00 AM, 
Lupin would indeed have been in "recovery mode".

As far as I do recall the lycanthropy lore I once knew (thank you, DARK 
SHADOWS), a werewolf only transforms on the night the moon is actually at fullness 
- just one night a month.  They may, however, experience uncomfortable 
symptoms for some days prior, particularly serious irritability, and will be weak for 
a couple of days afterward - more, if they haven't fed in werewolf form.  (I 
checked this in folklore, since in Witchcraft the Full Moon is said to last 
THREE days.)

FWIW, my two Knuts.  As always, YMMV.

Sherrie
(beat from opening weekend of THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG)
"Unless history lives in our present, it has no future." 
PRESERVE OUR CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS!


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