Werewolves and full moons

[pica_scribit]

I know there isn't really any canon evidence on this one way or the other, but I'd love to hear people's speculation. We know that werewolves only seem to transform once a month, presumably on the night when the moon is closest to peak fullness. But what if peak fullness occurs within a few minutes of twelve noon? Would a werewolf transform both

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[lavinialavender]

That sounds pretty plausible! I can imagine that Remus had to take the day off from classes in such an occurrence.

[shyfoxling]

The division of one day into the next at midnight is quite arbitrary. I think it might make more sense to reckon sunrise to sunrise or sunset to sunset as a "day" for this purpose; then you could clearly identify one period where the moon was fuller than on the two on either side, whether you wanted to restrict to night or not

[pica_scribit]

Perhaps the moment of peak fullness simply happened to coincide with the clouds moving and the moon shining down as they came out of the Shack that night, and if it happened during the day he would transform during the day?

When the moon is full, it is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, which means it is at its highest point in the sky near midnight, and tends to rise when the sun is setting, and vice versa. In June, in Scotland, when that chapter takes place, sunset happens very late indeed. Around 9 or 10 PM, depending on how far north Hogwarts is.

Perhaps it's always at night, after moonrise, at the moment of peak fullness or closest to, if that moment is actually in the daytime?

But if peak fullness happens around noon in the timezone in question, then the moon would be equally full both on the night before and the night after, would it not?

he speaks of using an excuse of going home to visit his sick mother, so it sounds like the better part of a day, or more, not just a matter of an hour or so.I assume (as seems