The immensely complex Homorphus Charm

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 94118

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmgarciaiii" 
<jmgarciaiii at y...> wrote:
> Maybe the "cocktail" would do the trick. Having said that, IF (and 
a 
> gigantically huge "if" at that) there's anything remotely true 
about 
> the Lockhart (by saying the villagers were spared their monthly 
> terror) story it *IMPLIES*--but doesn't categorically state--this 
> charm need be performed more than once per werewolf.


Jen: Yes, the way Lockhart describes the event it implies a one-time 
deal and the werewolf is cured. 

My thought is the Homorphus charm really does exist, but the 
description Lockhart gives of the process is incorrect. After all, 
not even Lockhart would publish a book with a made-up charm that no-
one has ever heard of, or else it would become WW news! His books 
are very popular; someone, somewhere with a werewolf family member 
would certainly contact him for more information, or someone doing 
research in the area. At the very least the Werewolf registry in the 
MOM would probably want to know about it to reduce their caseload!

So, lets say the charm exists. Well at that point we have info from 
Fantastic Beasts that says there is "no known cure" for 
lycanthrophy. So the spell would have to perform some other function.

Lockhart tells Harry and Ron this in COS:

"My dear boy...do use your common sense. My books wouldn't have sold 
half as well if people didn't think *I'd* done all those things."

"...There was work involved. I had to track these people down. Ask 
them exactly how they managed to do what they did."

IF Lockhart's telling the truth here, we now know there's a 
Homorphus charm and there's at least one person out there who can 
perform it. But that's where I think the truth ends! His antics in 
the classroom were drama. 

The real Homorphus charm, immensely complex like the Fidelius, might 
also require two people who enter into the charm together instead of 
one person casting the spell on another without their consent. So, 
with the consent of the werewolf, the caster is able to change the 
werewolf to human form once a month, but only after the person has 
transformed. Otherwise it would be a cure.