Werewolf Cures and Clues

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 83071

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tanya Swaine <swaine.t at x> wrote:
> I don't have any companion books for HP, but was having a read of
COS
> while having lunch.  It was mentioned here that there were clues in
this
> book.  Lockhart, at one point in class keeps getting Harry to role
play his
> award winning book sections.  This one day he says how he beat this
> Werewolf, changing him back into a human and freeing the village, it
was,
> as he said a very complicated Homorphus charm.  I wonder if it was
> really as simple as that, just a charm, or was there more to it.
> 
This is all IMHO, of course, but I think the Homorphus charm is
probably the same charm Sirius & Lupin did on Peter to force him back
in human form. At a guess, it causes any transformed human to go back
to their original form, but does nothing to prevent future
transformations. Once the village *knew* who the werewolf was, they
could then take steps against that person.

OTOH, wouldn't it be interesting if Lupin was the Wagga-Wagga
werewolf? The wizard who originally claimed to have defeated him(who's
memory Lockhart erased) may have made up the charm as a cover story
for having smuggled Lupin out of the village to safety...

--Arcum