Litter of Werewolves

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 310

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, anglinsbees at y... wrote:

> So If a female werewolf conceived or bore her children in wolf
form, 
> couldn't they be dominantly wolf?

There are a lot of European and Japanese folk tales about the noble 
lord's beautiful young wife was expecting to give him an heir, but 
instead birthed a litter of fox cubs (Japan) or wolf cubs (Europe), 
which caused the husband to instantly do something ranging from 
divorcing her and the cubs to killing her and the cubs.

In Japan, that makes sense, as the shapeshifter is a fox who turns 
into human form at will. In Europe, it does not make sense, since the 
shapeshifter is a human who turns into a wolf at certain moonphases, 
and if it isn't the moonphase for the mother to be a wolf, how can it 
be the moonphase for the child to be a wolf? .... Unless they are 
implying that the father was a wolf instead of the husband!

However, I have become attached to believing that female werewolves 
cannot bear live children because the monthly shape-shifting is too 
hard on the fetus.

> What about other shape-shifters?  What would happen if a female 
> animagus transformed while pregnant?  The Child would have to be 
> transformed too... Wouldn't it?

I believe the Animagus shape-shifter (and Transfiguration 
shape-shifts, like 'someone had turned his friend into a badger') are 
much different from were-ism. That way, the fetus can transform back 
and forth without being harmed.

But what if she gave birth while in animal form? What if the 
father was in animal form at the important moment?  
> 
> Maybe crookshanks is a product of such mixed magics.......

You may be right!