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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124019



> JKR in interview:
> > > 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 
already up when Lupin entered the  shack.<<

Eloise: (summarized) Maybe JKR meant to say the moon wasn't 
visible, not that it wasn't up.

Pippin:
The *narrator* says the moon was completely obscured by 
clouds. But if the moon is completely obscured he can't tell 
whether it's risen or not. It could be the narrator who makes the 
mistake, just as it(he?) says that Harry's parents died in a car 
crash.

If you check back in the archives of this group around the time of 
the scholastic chat, you can find the genesis of the interview 
question or a similar one (there were several HPFGU members 
submitting questions which are in the files).  The aim of the 
questioner was to resolve the contradictions in PoA. 

JKR's answer, even if it didn't further contradict the narrator, 
would still have been completely useless for that purpose as it 
doesn't explain why Lupin didn't transform until he came outside, 
when Lupin states elsewhere that he was transformed inside 
the shack. "Once a month, I was smuggled out of the castle, into 
this place, to transform." -- PoA ch 18. 

 I have no doubt JKR knew that quite well. I'm sure it wasn't the 
first time she'd been asked that one.


Pippin