Homorphus

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19996

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Rick wrote:
> > Lockhart says he uses the immensely complex Homorphus
> > Charm to turn the werewolf back into a man.  Was that just
> > for the month or was the man cured forever?  If he was cured
> > forever why is Lupin still a werewolf?
> 
> When I wondered that, I thought maybe the Homorphus Charm includes
> wiping out the person's mind (leaving them babbling, having
> forgotten their toilet training, and unable to recognize their
> most beloved friends) as a side-effect. Then someone suggested
> that it only turns the person from wolf to human for one minute,
> just long enough for the villagers to recognize him so they could
> go after him while he was in human form the next day.

Or, simply, perhaps werewolfism is like diabetes - there are
different versions of the disease, and broadly speaking what
makes the difference is whether you get it as a child or as
an adult.  Lupin got bitten as a small child, so he got it worse.

(I'm aware that this is gross oversimplification, as I've just
been checking out fact sheets online at http://www.diabetes.org.uk/ .)

I'd ask whether there's also gestational werewolfism but someone's
sure to bite my head off :-)

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!