While this was obviously bad news for Rafael, the facts that he was stuck in wolf form before Hope jumped into Malivore and he wouldn’t have been stuck at all if not for Hope’s magic led to fans theorizing that maybe he would remember Hope.
Raf the wolf was proof that Hope had existed, and surely he had to remember what had led him to be in seemingly permanent wolf form, right?
Raf could remember Hope!
By the time of “You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know,” Raf had been stuck as a wolf for months, and stopped even coming back to Landon at the Salvatore School.