Werewolf Teachers, Pomfrey's Job, was Re: What if ...

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 102031

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 06/19/2004 12:12:27 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> jazmyn at f... writes:
> 
> >  **In fact, if she [Promfrey] was able to make the potion,
> > >perhaps Lupin would never have transformed at school**.
> > 
> 
> As I recall the wolfsbane potion doesn't prevent him from 
tranforming -- 
> remember Lupin still disappears during the time of the full moon--
but rather it 
> makes him harmless.  I seem to remember him saying that he curls 
up on the run 
> in front of his fire.
> 
I was under the impression that the wolfsbane potion was a recent 
development, and had not been available when Lupin was a student.  
Then, the only 'treatment' was to isolate him until the danger was 
past.  It's a tricky potion, and Snape, being very skilled, is 
entrusted with making it, but I don't think that he is the ONLY one 
who could do it.  That is, if it had been around when Lupin was 
young, I'm sure Dumbledore would have been able to find someone to 
make it then.

Wanda