[HPforGrownups] Re: Homorphus (was: Another werewolf question) / Pettigrew House

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33878

  Greetings!

> Amanda wrote to us about Homorphus Charm:

A> (... lots of text information deleted ruthlessly ...)

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

A> (... lots of text information deleted ruthlessly ...)

A>   --Amanda

  But then it's most likely that the spell cast by Sirius
and Remus on Pettigrew in PoA is Homorphus! And if we agree
with this assumption, then we get additional information
about the spell. Even the spell composition ("homo" +
"morphus") suggests that the spell does not deal with
werewolves only - it has no "lupus" part, after all.
  Still a nice cast-n-flee spell against werewolves - cast
it and you have some time to RUN! :)

> Rebecca wrote to us about Peter Pettigrew:

> When Sirius confronts Peter in the Shrieking shack, he
> accuses him of being inclined to follow the strongest
> person he can find out of cowardice. Peter's reply pretty
> much confirms this; he explains that he followed Voldemort
> because V. threatened to kill him, to which Sirius replies
> that he should have let him; the rest of the Marauders
> would have died for each other. Peter is a sniveling
> coward -- that's canon. He doesn't even really seem to
> have much remorse over betraying his friends.

  That's what has always bothered me - if Peter was a
coward, how on Earth could he hit Gryffindor? So far I have
seen no Peter's actions that would qualify Sorting Hat's
decision.
  Or - was he in Gryffindor at all? But if not, then what
House? Ravenclaw - unlikely. Hufflepuff - again doesn't
qualify. Slytherin - how to explain his friendship with
James/Sirius/Remus?

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
always happy to cast spells without predictable results.