Lupin and a cure for Lycanthropy

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 2730

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Blaise " <blaise_writer at h...> 
wrote:

> She [JKR] has several werewolf plot holes (which have been driving 
me 
crazy 
> for months!), like the fact that it seems she has two different 
types 
> of werewolves (c.f. in CoS Riddle saying that Hagrid used to raise 
> werewolf cubs under his bed and in PS/SS Ron saying that there are 
> wild werewolves in the Forbidden Forest), and Lupin's
transformation 
> in PoA where he only changes shape when the moon comes out from 
> behind the cloud, which is very strange.  

I'm a Lupin fan too, Blaise.  He's the model of what a teacher and 
mentor should be. He is also allegorical for discrimination of many 
kinds, unfairly an outcast.

You might have put your finger on the answer when you said "it seems 
she has two different types of werewolves..." Maybe there actually 
*are*  several types and variations.  Maybe there's different degrees 
of lycanthropy.  Lupin would actually be a milder form, only 
transforming at the full moon and keeping his humanity most of the 
time.  Worse cases are wolves all the time or most of the time and 
live in places like the Forbidden Forest.  The last stage may be 
breeding werewolf cubs. Perhaps this is the progression Lupin has to 
look forward to (awful thought).  All this is, of course, total and 
utter speculation without any backup whatsoever, but it does fit what 
little we have observed.  There's a good chance it just is a small 
plot hole. 

I'll definitely read that fanfic.