Lupin & Lockhart

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 58467


Since we are on rants about things that bug us, here is a doozy.  But for the life of me, I cannot think of any excuse for this contradiction.  Lupin is a warewolf and there is no cure.  There IS a difficult potion that will at least stop the worst manifistations of it so that he merely turns into a physical wolf but keeps his human mental bearings.

BUT, in the book before, Lockhart describes performing an extremely complicated and difficult spell that turned a warewolf back into a man and freed the village of this terror.  Now, of course Lockhart was a fraud and a liar.  But he merely borrowed valid stories of other people's daring do.  Which means that SOMEBODY cast this spell and it works!  If the spell itself was a fraud, he wouldn't have dared describe it in a book of course.  Now, there are two possibilities.

1.  The spell permenently cured the man of being a warewolf.  If that is true, then why couldn't anybody cast it on Lupin?  Even assuming it is an extremely difficult, advanced spell, there are still people capable of casting it or the spell wouldn't exist!  Certainly Dumbledore could have!

2.  The spell's effects only work at that time.  Even then, since they know when he's going to transform, somebody like Dumbledore I'm sure wouldn't find it too much trouble to cast it on him so that he could remain human and continue to function.  It seems to me if there is a magickal cure for warewolves, be it temporary or permenent beyond the partial cure of the potion, it would have been used.  

Anybody think this is an accidential inconsistancy on the author's part?  Partionally I'll still love her anyways....but it looks like it is.  

Oh! And don't even ask me what I think about the absurdity of Voldemort going through that extremely uncertain route to get Harry when he could have had Moody/Crouch use a Portkey at any prearranged time of the school year to do the same thing with much more certainty.  Even if he had to get Harry away from the school first (invite him to Hogsmeade for a butterbear? that would have been so much safer and more intelligent.  And I can't buy the notion of Voldemort wanting to make a spectacular splash.  He wanted want thing.  To use Harry to gain his strength back!  Period!

That's OK.  I STILL love our author!  Huggs Becky



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