[HPforGrownups] Another werewolf question

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 33866

This has to be quick, I'm real tired and much laundry and house-y things left to do tonight.
  Tori said:


  Besides Wolfsbane Potion, there is another possible cure and I am wondering how it can be brought to light in order to save Sirius.

  [This is me--you mean Lupin? What does a werewolf cure have to do with Sirius?]

  In CoS, Lockheart has Harry act out a scenario in which he 
  supposedly performed a charm that turned a werewolf back into a 
  normal human again.  Of course, we later learn that Lockheart didn't do any of the things he wrote about himself, but that someone else did...I'm pretty confident that someone will realize this--I'm betting on Hermione!--and cure Lupin so that he can be more effective in the fight against Voldy.

  [This is me again; I'm caught in your format. The charm is the Homorphus Charm. It seems to make a changed person (it is not specified that it is only for werewolves, and the roots mean only "man shape") turn back into their human form. We do not hear anything about how long it lasts.

  Lockhart did steal the credit, as you say, but he stole the credit for things actually done, so we can probably believe that the use of the Charm *did* save a village. However, I think the village was saved when the Charm revealed the identity of the werewolf, who could then be dealt with. It need only last long enough for the human form to be recognized. The knowledge of who it was would save the village.

  So. This is not a cure. It is a temporary measure to force someone to reveal themselves. I imagine it would also force Sirius into human form, or Rita, or any other changed human. Or, less combatively, it could allow you to identify an animal as actually being human, so that you could later figure out how to restore them.

  If this Charm were a cure, Lupin would know. Lupin himself states there is no cure. Lycanthropy is a life-ending disease, in that it forever separates the sufferer from the mainstream of society. Most,I imagine, get into the "to H** with you too" mode and do become evil; it must take a great effort of will or force of personality to still strive as Lupin does to benefit others.] End me, back to you...  

  Can anyone venture a guess as to who can break the memory charms and how?
  [what do the memory charms have to do with it? The charms on the people Lockhart victimized? Probably nothing, especially since he probably went to enormous lengths to hide who they were and now doesn't remember, himself.]

  Also, who might be powerful enough to do the charm on Lupin?
  [I don't think it would do any good, except if someone had known it the night of the Shrieking Shack incident. There is no cure, Lupin says so, and so by inference the Charm is not permanent.]  
  [Sorry about the format thing; I don't know why it does this, but it plays havoc with inter-leaved answers....]

  --Amanda


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