[HPforGrownups] Re: The immensely complex Homorphus Charm

[Cindy Jenkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 94242


> "... I put my wand to his throat -I then screwed up my remaining
> strength and performed the immensely complex Homorphus Charm - ...-
> the fur vanished - the fangs shrank - and he turned back into a man.
> Simple, yet effective - and another village will remember me forever
> as the hero who delivered them from the monthly terror of werewolf
> attacks."

bboy_mn wrote:

>First, it is real. Second, it is not a 'medical' charm, but a
>defensive charm. Third, someone somewhere in the future could actually
>perform it. Logically, Hermione is the most likely candidate.

>As I said the charm does not cure werewolfism. It forces a werewolf
>back into human form, and may force enough humanity back into the
>person to stop a werewolf attack.

>The functional purpose of the charm is to force the person back to
>human form, so that he can be identified. It's very very likely that a
>werewolf living in a village is NOT going to spread that news around.
>So, now, after the charm, the villagers have the culprit identified
>and know who to watch out for.

>I also believe that the charm is transient. That is, it's good for
>maybe an hour. In that hours time, you must either flee, or capture
>and imprison the werewolf.

Me now--

I'm curious...  Why do you think this?  Is there something in canon to
suggest it?

I suppose you could interpret the passage that way.  I think you can also
read it as a cure.  Maybe it's a pseudo-fictional one that not many people
know of or believe.  For example, people think Loopy Luna is full of it.
She believes in animals that others *know* don't exist, because they don't
appear in books, or if they do, they are fictional only.  But are they?

I don't think JRK would intentionally write contradictory canon.  In FB, she
writes that there's no known cure for werewolfism, but the passage from
Lockhart (to me, anyway) suggests that there is a cure.  Lockhart admits in
COS *he* didn't perform the feats, but he says *somebody* did, and he had to
track them down and find out exactly what happened.  If he's going to 'fess
up to stealing their stories, why wouldn't he just admit the whole thing was
a lie?  I think it's because it isn't--he really did find someone who cured
werewolfism.

I really think that Lupin will be eventually cured, and this charm will be
part of it.  I really hope so, too, because I like the guy.

Cindy