Homorphus charm & Lupin

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 113311

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Pat" <eeyore6771 at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brenda" <luckdragon64 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > Hope this han't been discussed before, but I did not see any 
> > reference to it in the archives.
> > 
> > In COS Lockhart discusses his various achievements with his 
> students 
> > including performing the Homorphus charm on the Wagga Wagga 
> Werewolf 
> > which changes the WW back into a man thereby delivering the 
> village 
> > from the monthly terror of Werewolf attacks.
> > 
> > In POA Lupin tells the trio about his becoming a werewolf, and 
> that 
> > in those days there was no cure and that Wolfsbane potion is a 
> > recent discovery which allows him to become a harmless wolf.
> > 
> > While we know Lockhart was not the wizard to perform the 
Homorphus 
> > charm, there had to be fact to the possibility of it being done 
or 
> > he would not be famous for having done it. So why is Lupin so 
> > resigned to his fate and not wandering the world searching for 
> > someone who can perform this charm? Why hasn't Sirius or 
> Dumbledore 
> > helped their friend more.
> > 
> > I'm sure the reason must be that the storyline requires Lupin to 
> be 
> > a werewolf for some upcoming event or possibly his own demise. 
> > Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> 
> 
> Pat here:
> 
> More than likely, your last comment is really the reason for Lupin 
> still being a werewolf, but if you look at the part about the 
wizard 
> that could perform the Homorphus charm, it seems that only this 
one 
> wizard can do it.  And thanks to Lockhart, who modified his 
memory, 
> that isn't possible any longer.
> 
> Pat

Mac now:

I took this to mean that the charm will revert a werewolf to its 
human form, but transiently only - not permanently. It would have 
been a useful charm on that fateful night in PoA when Pettigrew 
escaped, but might not be long-lived/irreversible.

On this same charm, what spell did Lupin and Sirius use on Scabbers 
to force Pettigrew's appearance in the shrieking shack? Might that 
have been homorphus too? That is, is it a spell that turns any 
animal back to its formerly human form (a bit frog-princeish - aha! 
Trevor? just joking). Presumably it doesn't turn ANY animal into a 
human (e.g. Crookshanks who I think JKR has said is NOT an animagus).