Lupin & Lockhart

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 58526

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Becky Walkden 
<runningbecky2002 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Me:
Remember also, that Lockhart memoried charmed the wizards and witches 
who actually performed the spells.   Most likely, Lockhart charmed 
this wizard early in his research so he could take credit for it.  So 
the one wizard who maybe could have cured all the werewolves in the 
world doesn't remember how.   This goes to show just how truly 
depraved Lockhart was.

That in mind, it does leave the possiblity that Lupin could be cured 
later on if the charm was re-discovered.  Of course, then in true 
literary fashion, he would have to die a horrible death so that it 
would seem horrible tragic.

Serena