Support for the ESE Lupin theory!

[alshainofthenorth]

No: HPFGUIDX 123886


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pyros Wife <tayla_gangrel at y...> 
wrote:
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> 
> Pippin:
> It's possible that the active ingredient in the potion has a 
> "threshold" -- that is, you have to take the entire weeks' dosage 
or it has no effect. 
> 
> I can believe that Lupin forgot to take it, or even that he knew 
that Snape was coming but decided that going after Peter was a higher 
priority. But the fact that he would have already had several doses 
that week makes it difficult for me to think that he also forgot it 
was the night of the full moon. How could he,  when he was talking 
about the potion and its effects on being a werewolf with the Trio 
and Sirius?
> 
> And then, he completely blows off Snape's announcement that 
> he hasn't taken his potion. IMO, that  is either criminally 
> irresponsible or there is something else going on -- such as that 
he did take his potion as the ESE!Lupin theory postulates.
> 
> 
> 
> Tayla:
> 
> He could have thought that with all of the doses that he took, he 
may have had more control over himself, but when faced with the fact 
that he has been wrong for all of these years as to WHO betrayed the 
Potters, his anger at himself could have left him with little 
control. Think about going through most of your life and finding out 
your opinion was wrong all that time.  Wasn't Harry himself angry at 
the Dursleys for less, but essentially the same thing?
> 
> Tayla

Alshain:
There's also the matter of three children and their safety. Whoever 
of Lupin's old friends betrayed the Potters' whereabouts to 
Voldemort, this person had no scruples at all about killing people. 
Lupin set off just as much to protect three of his students; we can 
argue about what Pettigrew's intentions were towards Harry or if he'd 
have had the guts to kill him explicitly and in cold blood. But then 
and there, Lupin wasn't 100 % sure that he wouldn't just whip out a 
wand and AK him on the spot, and he *is* a Gryffindor, after all.

I wish that JKR had been more consistent about the lunar phases and 
the influence of the moon (irritated me to no end when writing a 
fanfic account of Lupin's year at Hogwarts. If he doesn't transform 
inside the shack, how come he does it inside the castle?) but it may 
be that Lupin thought he might somehow make it before moonrise or 
that six doses of Wolfsbane potion would be enough to make him safe. 
By his own admission, he's no good at Potions, so I suppose he might 
have been taking it as non-experts generally take more complex 
medicines; knowing that it worked somehow, but ignorant of the finer 
mechanics.

BTW, I hope Lupin has better calendars of the lunar phases than JKR. 
The times in POA are all out of synch, but the one in June is worst 
of all.
Alshain the meticulous