[HPforGrownups] Re: Homorphus

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 20084

dasienko at email.com wrote:

> I was wondering about this very topic, I came to the conclusion that
> Remus was a WIZARD-CHILD when he was bit by the werewolf. so the
> Homomorphus spell wouldn't work on him at all (thus from PoA- his
> parents tried everything, but nothing worked).

It's a charm. I'm betting the effects don't last too long--we've been
told by Remus himself that there's no cure, haven't we? somebody said
that. I think the charm makes any disguised/transfigured human be
revealed as a human. Once the charm is performed on a werewolf, in wolf
form, his/her identity can be established--it was this, the ability to
identify the werewolf and thus take action, which saved the village (for
which action Lockhart took credit).

> The spell didn't work on Remus because he is NOT HOMO-Sapiens, he is
> WIZARD SAPIENS.

Wizards are not a different species. They aren't even, biologically
speaking, a different race. Not even our "races" are different races. An
example of different races would be (in one interpretation of the human
family tree) Homo sapiens sapiens (us) and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
(them other guys with the funny lookin' heads). But it's not even agreed
whether *they* were a race of our species or a species of their own.
Point being, such truly different hominids may not be different enough
to be considered another species. So wizards certainly aren't.

Wizarding ability is just that--an ability--that apparently usually
breeds true to at least some degree, since Squibs are rare, and which is
apparently very recessive in Muggles but which can appear as a trait.
Any charm, spell, hex, potion, etc., that works on a wizard should work
on a Muggle. Or so I think.

--Amanda


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