Full Moon (was: Support for the ESE Lupin theory!)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 123992


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:

<quote from interview> 
> Q:
> Can you explain how Lupin turns into a werewolf, since he didn't 
> turn in the Shrieking Shack in Prisoner of Azkaban, but instead 
> he turned only when the full moonlight hit him outside the 
> tunnel? If he only turned into a wolf in the moonlight, why didn't 
> he just stay inside? Did it have to do with the potion? Or was the 
> moon not up yet?
> 
> A:
> The moon wasn't up when he entered the Shrieking Shack.
> 
> Pippin:
> Quite dodgy, that. The innocent chatter is trying to figure out 
what 
> happened when Lupin came out of the tunnel, and JKR only 
> says what happened when Lupin went into it. And she needn't 
> even have been talking about the same instance -- after all, 
> Lupin went into the tunnel loads of times as a student. 

Renee:
As the person who asks the question is very obviously referring to 
the Shrieking Shack scene in POA, you're really overtaxing people's 
credulity here, Pippin. You have to, of course, as JKR obviously 
doesn't remember the moon was alreadu up when Lupin entered the 
shack. From PoA, chapter 21, after Harry and Hermione have gone back 
in time:

"They watched the four men climb the castle steps and disappear from 
view. For a few minutes the scene was deserted. Then -

`Here comes Lupin!' said Harry, as they saw another figure sprinting 
down the stone steps and haring towards the Willow. Harry looked up 
at the sky. Clouds were obscuring the moon completely. 

They watched Lupin seize a broke branch from the ground and prod the 
knot on the trunk. The tree stopped fighting, and Lupin, too, 
disappeared into the gap in its roots."  

Pippin:
>Of course 
> that would be devious, and JKR is *never* devious. 

Renee:
Nor, as we all know perfectly well, has she *ever* made a single 
mistake in the entire HP series. <Snapish smirk>