[HPforGrownups] a cure for werewolfs?

[Katie Kearns]

No: HPFGUIDX 14332

At 11:35 PM 3/13/01 -0800, you wrote:

>This makes me wonder, is who is right? Is there a cure for werewolfs?
>And if so, why didn't Lupin get cured? I think that Dumbledore or
>McGonagall would be able to perform such a charm.
>
>Ideas? Suggestions? Answers?
>
>Rena

I have a feeling that, as part of the general hysteria and 
lack-of-understanding of werewolves, that curing werewolves just isn't 
possible -- and Lockhart himself might not even know it, nor do his readers.

After all, Riddle tells Harry that Hagrid used to raise werewolf cubs -- 
which is totally impossible, as JKR has agreed. He either said it knowing 
that Harry wouldn't really know the truth, or he doesn't know the truth 
himself!

I'm guessing all people know about werewolves is old wives tales and total 
misinformation.  But Dumbledore knows the truth -- and if there was a cure, 
I'm sure he would have found it. (As long as the cure wasn't "evil" in 
nature. Well, unless, of course, that Dumbledore doesn't believe in 
altering people that way, that they should be true to themselves or 
something....)

-Katie