Re: Homorphus Charm Questions

Chip Stobb wrote:
I just finished re-reading CoS for the umpteenth time, and forgive me
if this has been discussed at some point in the past but this stuck
out in my mind.

In CoS, Gilderoy Lockhart stole the credit from "some ugly old
Armenian Warlock" (chapter 16) for performing the "Homorphus Charm"
which turned a werewolf back into a man (chapter 10).

I have a few questions about this:

1) Was this transformation back into human form a permanent reversal
of the monthly 'werewolf effect'? The book appears to insiunate this
as it says, "No one wants to read about some ugly, old Armenian
warlock, even if he did save a village from werewolves."

Since a charm that permanently cured lycanthropy would have caused many to demand a how-to, and there were no such demands, we either must assume that JKR messed up with this throwaway, or that it only turns the target into a human for a short time, and possibly doesn't affect the target's mental state at all; the charm would only be useful for capturing a wereworf, which can probably be done by other means.

Regards,
John
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