[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin and a cure for Lycanthropy

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2703

Blaise wrote:

> First of all, there is no reason to believe *anything* that Lockhart
> says, and the Homorphus Charm might well be a little embellishment of
> his to make the story more exciting.  Quite possibly the Armenian
> warlock simply killed a werewolf that was terrorising a village and
> Lockhart played around with the story until it was exciting enough
> for his taste.

Well, I'm betting that Lockhart's embellishment consisted of the "cure."
>From the name of the charm, it simply makes the werewolf take human form.
For how long, or with what sort of mental capacity at the time, is
unclear. Or maybe JKR did overlook it.

> She has several werewolf plot holes (which have been driving me crazy
> for months!), like the fact that it seems she has two different types
> of werewolves (c.f. in CoS Riddle saying that Hagrid used to raise
> werewolf cubs under his bed and in PS/SS Ron saying that there are
> wild werewolves in the Forbidden Forest), and Lupin's transformation
> in PoA where he only changes shape when the moon comes out from
> behind the cloud, which is very strange.

Perhaps there *are* two kinds. "Natural," or "animal," the wild ones, who
are wolves most of the time, live in forests, have the minds of wolves,
but can shape-change and can infect humans via their bite. And "human,"
the people born human who are infected by another werewolf, natural or
human. The humans so infected develop the curse and change into
wolves---mind *and* body. The werewolf 'virus' is similar to other
animal-borne diseases which affect humans, and for which there is no cure,
like rabies or that thing monkey-handlers get.

As I'm sitting here, without researching or anything, as I recall it's
always the light of the moon, not the time, that causes the change. I
don't see anything strange about them being safe while the moon was
covered....?

--Amanda