World Building & The Potterverse -When it Rains, it Rain

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 167351

Random:
> No, but she should have at least made sure the day before wasn't also
> a Monday. (yes, i know, that's one of the few that actually got fixed
> in reprints, but it's still an example of just how careless she can be
> about these things) Similarly, I don't care if the full moons line up
> with 1993-94, but it'd be nice if they were at about the same day each
> month (actual full moons are at an interval of 29.5 days). In other
> words, I don't care if there was a full moon or not on halloween of
> 1993, but you can't have one then and on christmas.
> 

Pippin:
Ah, but we don't know that Lupin's absence at Christmas was
due to the full moon. "I'm afraid the poor fellow  is ill again" doesn't
have to mean he's suffering from his transformation, even if
Dumbledore makes it sound that way by asking Severus if he's
made the potion.  It doesn't have to mean Lupin was incapacitated 
at all. Possibly  Lupin made a polite excuse because he didn't think 
he'd enjoy a dinner with Snape, (neither would JKR or so she says) 
or maybe Lupin was already engaged in spying on the werewolves 
and slipped away to do so while school was not in session.

It could be a little hint: just as Lupin might be absent for reasons
unrelated to his transformations, he might behave destructively
unrelated to his transformations also.

It's noticeable that Trelawney, who ought to be up on the phases
of the moon if anyone is, had every expectation of seeing him at
the table.

Pippin