A thought about POA

[augustinapeach]

No: HPFGUIDX 83884

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

Now AP:

I've noticed that, too -- in crisis situations people seem to forget 
some of the simplest and most useful spells.  I don't have my books 
with me, so I can't cite specific examples, but there have been 
times when I thought, "why doesn't Harry just use 'accio'?"  It 
reminds me of the scene in PS/SS when Ron and Harry are trapped by 
the Devil's Snare and Harry tells Hermione to start a fire.  She's 
been doing it through the whole book, but NOW she forgets and starts 
babbling about wood.  Ron has to bring her to her senses by 
yelling, "Are you a witch or what?!"