Possible silly question about Werewolves

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No: HPFGUIDX 78268

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, > --- In 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Darklady" <kkreinke at e...> 
<snip> > 
> > Lupin, in discussing his lycanthropy, says that "they didn't have 
a 
> > cure BACK THEN." (Emphasis obviously my own. ) Would that 
> > not imply that there is a cure NOW? If so - why has not Lupin 
> > been cured? Is it perhaps like a rabies cure - that is only 
> effective 
> > if started before the disease takes hold? <snip> 


"S Handel" <fc26det at a...> wrote:

Hi,
> In OOP Mr. Weasley refers to a person in St. Mungos "Bitten by a 
> werewolf, poor chap. No cure at all."  So even now there is no 
cure.  
> I think in the book you were listening to they meant that when 
Remus 
> was bitten there was no "treatment" either.
> Susan

Laura:

I wonder if there's a vaccine kids can take to prevent the onset of 
lycanthropy in later life.  That would explain Lupin's "in those 
days" remark, and if the guy in the hospital hadn't gotten the 
vaccine, that would explain why there's no cure for him.  I know that 
a vaccine isn't a cure per se, but it's close.