Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 9

Unfortunately, the dates of the actual full moon in 1993/1994 do not seem to completely tally with the story. The full moon falls on October 30 and November 29 of 1993; internal evidence (Lupin looking healthy on October 31, Quidditch against Hufflepuff one to two weeks later, Lupin sick just before and possibly during the Quidditch match) would indicate the need for a full moon sometime around the second week in November. While there is a full moon on May 25 and June 23 1994, the episode in The Shrieking Shack falls immediately after Exams, which would place it most likely early in the second week of June. As the events in the story could, in both cases, be either one or two weeks off the dates of the full moon, we may simply assume that J. K. Rowling consulted a lunar phases chart for a different year than the one where story actually occurred... except that Lupin is apparently sick on Christmas, and there was a full moon on 28 December 1993.

I include this information because it nags at me; however, I don't believe that it belongs in the book proper. Chazz 07:18, 2 October 2006 (UTC)