My Heart of It All Theory

[mrslestrange]

No: HPFGUIDX 104414

Bella wrote:
 
> This emphasizes the end of the seventh book, and the extreme
> importance of the scar finally vanishing. Remember, for instance, 
from
> CoS, that mandrake also restores people who have been cursed? I 
mean,
> come on. A kid's got to wait 5 years for Hermione's words to sink 
in?

 
vmonte responded:

> I believe that the mandrake restores those that have been petrified 
> and those that have been transformed (not cursed).  I remember this 
> because it really sounds like a JKR clue.  This fact about the 
> mandrake's ability will probably resurface.  


Yes, I should have inserted the quote! Here it is, from chapter 6 of 
COS, on page 92 of my paperback American edition:

"Mandrake, or Mandragora, is a powerful restorative," said Hermione, 
sounding as usual as though she had swallowed the textbook. "It is 
used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their 
original state."

"Excellent. Ten points to Gryffindor," said Professor Sprout. "The 
mandrake forms an essential part of most antid