[HPforGrownups] Re: A Question That is Making My Brain Hurt

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No: HPFGUIDX 41820



> shadowgirl_900 at y... writes:
There is a scene where Lockhart is battling a werewolf.  He says:
"--hold him down -- with my other, I put my wand to his throat --
I then screwed up my remaining strength and performed the immensely
complex Homorphus Charm. <snip> The fur vanished -- the fangs shrank --
and he turned back into a man. Simple, yet effective -- and another
village will remember me forever as the hero who delivered them from the
monthly terror of werewolf attacks."
Now, is it just me or does it look like Lockhart says he can
cure a werewolf? Okay, I grant you the man is making everything up, but,
at the end of the book--well?

(Me)
I don't think what Lockhart says that *he* did was actually a cure.  The
Homorphus Charm would have changed the werewolf's looks - to that of a man
in this case.  I thinik it doesn't change his nature or that thing within
him that makes his become a werewolf.  It would be kind of like drinking
Polyjuice.

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