Animagi & werewolves

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Animagi & werewolves
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7053] Re: Animagi & werewolves
Date: 8/17/00 10:51 pm  (ET)

> Are there punishments for being a werewolf? For example, if a werewolf
were to bite someone and was caught, what would happen to the werewolf
then? Is it legal to kill a werewolf during the full moon? Are there
restrictions on what a werewolf can and cannot do? Would the Committee
for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures execute a werewolf?

Someone already mentioned the (1737 IIRC) Werewolf Code of Conduct, which
no doubt specifies all the restrictions on what werewolves are allowed
to do (clearly, biting humans is right out!) and what the punishment is
for violating the restrictions.

With the general prejudice against werewolves that we have seen,
I imagine that the penalty for any, even the smallest, transgression
would be death or Azkaban. Wondering whether it would be death or it
would be Azkaban doesn't get me any further than you already were.

Does British Isles wizarding law have capital punishment for some kind of
wizarding criminal or just Azkaban? If yes, we can wonder if the criminal
werewolf would be executed by the disposer of Dangerous Creatures or
the executioner of humans.

Killing a werewolf during the Full Moon surely would be viewed as
legitimate self-defense, and from what Lupin said about the danger to
any human encountered by the werewolf minus Wolfsbane Potion, it WOULD BE
self-defense. More interesting question: is it legal to kill a werewolf
the other 28 days of the month?

Tom Riddle made some remark about Hagrid raising a litter of werewolf
pups under his bed, and it may have been you who pointed out that human
children who turn into wolves one night a month cannot be raised under a
bed. Perhaps there is a magical creature which is wolf-like full-time but
its bite turns a human into a werewolf, and the wizard folk, including
their lawmakers, keep getting confused between the magical creatures and
the infected humans, leading them to make laws that treat the infected
humans as if they were rabid coyotes or plague-carrying rats.

Lockhart claimed to have cured a werewolf with the Homorphus Charm. As
many of Lockhart's boasts were based on other people's actual deeds,
do you think there actually IS a Homorphus Charm?