A thought about POA

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 83587

I am currently reading all the books for the umpteenth time and 
tonight reached the end of POA.

This may have been touched on in the past but a thought crossed my 
mind as I was reading the scene where the group leave the Whomping 
Willow after the goings-on in the Shrieking Shack and Lupin begins to 
transform as the moon comes out.

This would, of course, have affected the plot line of the book, but 
why didn't somebody pull out a wand and either use "Petrificus 
Totalus" or "Stupefy" on Lupin to stop him? OK, it would have ruined 
the next two books but it would seem to have been logical.

Wearily dons tin helmet and retires to bomb shelter to await flak 
from other posters giving me thirty three different reasons why I'm 
off my trolley.

Geoff