I've actually thought long and hard about this...Rowling screwed up, of that I have no doubt. But if you wanted to cover that base....
What if part of the physical change is psychosomatic? Granted, if a werewolf is directly in moonlight, the change is triggered, there's no helping it. But werewolves have been taught for years, from the moment they are bitten, "when the moon is full, you will change into the beast." This is part of werewolf lore, part of their shared history as a species (species? Maybe. Subject for later debate).
Werewolves feel the moon. Lupin starts to look more poozley just before the full moon. They know it's coming. So, like clockwork, they all change on the night of the full moon...maybe for the hours it is at its fullest, to explain away why they don't change in the daytime.
They change whether they are inside, outside, in a coma, apparating to the other side of the world. They change because they KNOW they have to. But what if they *could* fight it if they weren't in moonlight? What if there is choice there, but they're too brainwashed to know it?
Lupin is utterly distracted that night in the shack. Faced with his fugitive friend and one he thought long dead; revelation after revelation....for a while there he forgot everything but the events unfolding before him. Forgot what night it was, forgot to feel the pull of the moon, forgot everything until that beam of light fell on him....He unconsciously fooled that impulse inside him that says "you must change when the moon is full." He had it good and fooled until that moonlight fell on him...and THEN he had no choice...the effect is too direct and intense in moonlight.
But until then, he wasn't changing, he'd clean forgotten to. Psychosomatic. Ta da.
Anyway, babbling. Why am I always finding your entries late and when I have to run? :)
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What if part of the physical change is psychosomatic? Granted, if a werewolf is directly in moonlight, the change is triggered, there's no helping it. But werewolves have been taught for years, from the moment they are bitten, "when the moon is full, you will change into the beast." This is part of werewolf lore, part of their shared history as a species (species? Maybe. Subject for later debate).
Werewolves feel the moon. Lupin starts to look more poozley just before the full moon. They know it's coming. So, like clockwork, they all change on the night of the full moon...maybe for the hours it is at its fullest, to explain away why they don't change in the daytime.
They change whether they are inside, outside, in a coma, apparating to the other side of the world. They change because they KNOW they have to. But what if they *could* fight it if they weren't in moonlight? What if there is choice there, but they're too brainwashed to know it?
Lupin is utterly distracted that night in the shack. Faced with his fugitive friend and one he thought long dead; revelation after revelation....for a while there he forgot everything but the events unfolding before him. Forgot what night it was, forgot to feel the pull of the moon, forgot everything until that beam of light fell on him....He unconsciously fooled that impulse inside him that says "you must change when the moon is full." He had it good and fooled until that moonlight fell on him...and THEN he had no choice...the effect is too direct and intense in moonlight.
But until then, he wasn't changing, he'd clean forgotten to. Psychosomatic. Ta da.
Anyway, babbling. Why am I always finding your entries late and when I have to run? :)
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