a cure for werewolfs?

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No: HPFGUIDX 14300

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Rena wrote:
> 
> > that Lockhart says, "he performed the immensely complex Homorphus
> > Charm" and the werewolf turned back into a man, thus "delievered 
> them
> > [the villagers] from the monthly terror of werewolf attacks."
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> > O.K. so we know that Lockhart didn't do what he said he did in his
> > books, but in towards the end of CoS he admits that other people 
did
> > it and he got the story, then performed a memory charm to make 
them
> > forget and he could claim the fame.
> > <snip>
> 
> > Ideas? Suggestions? Answers?
 
> Here are two theories:
> 
> (1) Lockhart is lying, not only about his having performed the charm 
> himself, but about the whole story.  He only tells this to his 
> students, IIRC.  A bunch of 2nd-years might not know that 
lycanthropy 
> is incurable.  (Though Hermione Granger is one of them . . . hmmm.)
> 
> (2) (a better theory IMO)  There *is* such a charm (performed only 
by 
> people who know what they're doing, not Lockhart) but what GL 
doesn't 
> tell us is its devastating effects on the afflicted person.  He/she 
> ceases to be a werewolf, but also has his/her personality wiped 
> entirely blank.  It's the Ho*morphus* Charm:  you keep the form of a 
> human, yes, but your mind and spirit are erased.  Most werewolves, 
> including Lupin, opt to continue suffering lycantrhopy and remain 
> themselves (27 days out of 28, anyway).
> 
Or a third theory....

The charm had just been developed, the developer told Lockhart all 
about it hoping for wider publicity and use for the new charm, but 
Lockhart (selfish git) wiped his memory and the secret behind the 
charm was lost.