Another werewolf question

[torimarie_1216]

No: HPFGUIDX 33824

---Marina J. wrote:

>  Why on earth hasn't someone charmed Lupin in all this 
> time???  Well, I'm all for Sirius showing off his magical muscles 
in 
> any and all opportunities, but why not Hermione herself?  

Good questions!  I really wish I had an answer for the first one, 
but I don't.  Maybe it just hasn't occured to anyone yet that this 
is a possibility for Lupin?  But then, I could hardly believe that 
of Dumbledore.  Very little seems to ever escape his notice.  

Or maybe it's one or both of these other factors:

A) In order to learn the charm and how to do it correctly, they have 
to actually find that old Armenian warlock, which must be like 
trying to find a needle in a haystack

B) It takes Dark Magic to break the memory charm and Dumbledore and 
the others opposing Voldy haven't had enough reason to justify this 
until now.  I still don't particularly like that idea, because it 
gets into alot of moral and ethical priority setting that makes my 
head spin.  ;-)  For instance, they might think it's wrong to use 
the Dark Magic to break a memory charm in order to cure a werewolf 
just to give the werewolf a better life and protect the people 
around him.  But if that werewolf had the ability and the 
willingness to defeat Voldy and protect the world from *him*, using 
the Dark Forces for *this* greater good is perfectly acceptable.  
Does that make any sense?  I'm not necessarily saying that is my 
opinion, but am just tossing it out there as a possibility.

About Hermione being the one to do it, I agree that she is perfectly 
capable of learning and doing such advanced magic.  The biggest 
reason I would have for thinking it might not happen that way has to 
do with her own safety.  It would be pretty dangerous for her to be 
that close to a werewolf during the full moon.  The Wolfsbane potion 
makes him safer, but it still seems to be pretty risky.

>I definitely think Hermione is more than 
> capable of researching and learning a Homorphus Charm-- after all, 
> she was the one who researched and did most of the preparation for 
> the Polyjuice Potion

I agree.  I just wonder if Sirius would be called upon to perform 
it, as he is an adult and Lupin's old friend, thus wouldn't be in as 
great danger as Hermione

>  And, she learned Lockhart's books by heart, though perhaps 
> not for scholastic reasons. 

*Grin*!  Yes indeed!  I only wonder that she hasn't thought of it 
yet.  Perhaps she was too busy drawing little hearts around his name 
in her schedule!  ;-)

> I wonder if the Homorphus Charm has to be performed while the 
person 
> is in the werewolf state?  If so, Snape's wolfsbane potion would 
come 
> in handy.  

It probably does, in which case I would call Wolfsbane Potion a 
necessary ingredient to the plan.  

>Also, I wonder who exactly was the "ugly old Armenian" 
> .... maybe a Durmstrang graduate?  

Well spotted!  I hadn't even thought of that.  And you know, that 
could tie in with Hermione too.  I don't know if she is going to go 
to Krum's house over holiday, but even if he just writes to her, 
there might be some reference of his that starts those wheels in her 
brain turning--and I do believe that once those wheels get going, 
there's just no stopping them!

--Tori, who is tickled pink to be talking about this with others 
who "get it"!