A thought about POA

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No: HPFGUIDX 83602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
<snip>
 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? <snip>

Laura:

I'd theorize that those spells simply stop a person's forward motion 
but don't affect any autonomic motor function.  Transforming is an 
involuntary process-like breathing-for werewolves, right?  So you'd 
need a much more powerful spell to stop the process, if such a spell 
even exists.  The Wolfsbane Potion doesn't stop the transformation; 
it just eases the mental effects.  I'd assume that if a spell 
existed that could stop a werewolf from transforming, our boys James 
and Sirius would have found out about it.

There now, Geoff, that wasn't too painful, was it?  *smiles*