Werewolf Mystery

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 153833

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

> Pippin:
> There is similar confusion about real life wolves.  Maybe JKR did 
not know that when she 
> began and decided to work it into the story, or maybe she did know 
when she began and 
> decided to work it into the story :)
> 

Lanval:
That's entirely possible. :) After all, she does make mistakes; 
looking at the sheer volume of ideas, plots and subplots in the 
books, I'm surprised she doesn't make more.

Yet this one struck me as more than just a casual error, a FLINT, a 
wrong birth year.

> Pippin:
 
> Lupin  well-fed and in the company of the animagi, who seemed to 
restrain his 
> wolfishness, might only need to be kept away from the humans who 
triggered his 
> werewolf behavior.
> 
> Lupin  confined in the Shrieking Shack , without the animagi, 
provoked by the presence of 
> a human, in pain from the bites and scratches he'd inflicted on 
himself, could be very 
> dangerous. 


Lanval:
Good point about the real wolves. Lupin might see the Shack and the 
tunnel as his territory, after all, and he might be even more 
aggressive there.

Now you bring up another strange fact: where WERE the Marauders that 
night? Why were they not with Lupin? How, and when did Sirius tell 
James, and where was Peter?

With James, I can see how he would have had to wait outside the 
tunnel, perhaps at the edge of the forest. Prongs would be far too 
large to fit through the tunnel.




> Pippin:
> I would be  careful about classifying Lupin's involvement in the 
prank as a figment of 
> Snape's imagination until Book Seven is in. We thought the DADA 
curse was a figment of 
> the imagination too.
> 
Lanval:
I know... :) Let's just hope it really does get cleared up.