A Question That is Making My Brain Hurt

[shadowgirl_900]

No: HPFGUIDX 41492

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:

> 1. The Homorphus Charm exists; it causes a human person who is currently
> transfigured (for whatever reason) to take their human form again.
That's
> what the root words indicate, a change to human.
> 
> 2. Lockhart did not perform the Homorphus Charm any more than he
performed
> any of the stuff he claims, but some old village wizard *did* do exactly
> what he said and Homorphus'ed a werewolf.
> 
> 3. All the Charm does is cause the subject (in this case, a werewolf) to
> take on human form temporarily. No mention is made of duration.
> 
> 4. The reason this saved the village is that for the short duration
of the
> Charm, the villagers (or even just the wizard) were able to identify the
> werewolf--i.e., who he was in the daytime there amongst them--and take
> appropriate action later. I'm betting that they just restrained him
until
> the sun came up....
> 
> 5. Lupin himself says nothing cures lycanthropy. This charm was a
temporary
> measure to clearly establish identity in a werewolf case.
> 

   :::Nods:::  Okay, hadn't thought of that. :) Good explaination.

  Now someone brought this up, (And I appologize that right this
second I cannot remember who, but...) on page 352 of the Scholastic
version, (chapter 18) Remus says: "My parents tried everything, but in
those days there was no cure."
  Does this mean there is one now?


> 
> *sigh* I'm tired and don't feel like wading the archives to find the
other
> times I've argued this. 


   I know that feeling. :)

> 
> --Amanda, feeling like a true geist in that her posts are invisible 

    No, I got it and a very lucid point it was. :)


   Thanks for the help!

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        Laura