Sadness and Lycanthropy

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32449

At 12:36 PM -0500 12/31/01, Ms. Found in A Bottle wrote:
>Katze wrote,
>
>>  Harry's death seems likely to me as well, given JKR's
>>  comments that I found in some of her interviews:
>
>Well, my sister has commented that it would be kinda difficult for her to
>write his death, because all the books are written from Harry's perspective,
>so if he dies his thinking will cease.

Disclaimer: I think Harry survives the series, although I doubt he 
makes it out undamaged.

However - the first chapter of PS/SS isn't written from Harry's 
point-of-view; it switches between Vernon Dursley's and Dumbledore's. 
It would be nicely symmetric for the last chapter of book 7 to also 
be written from a few other people's POV, whether Harry survives the 
book or not.


At 3:38 AM +0000 12/31/01, mullsym255 wrote:
>I'm sorry if this has been discussed before (I did a search and
>nothing came up), but just what does a werewolf look like when it
>transforms?

Lupin, at least, seems to go directly from Homid to Hispo and back, 
with none of the intermediate stages.

Oops.  Sorry.  That's terminology from the _Werewolf: the Apocalypse_ 
role-playing game.  Translation: he seems to go from his "normal" 
human form to a Dire Wolf-like form - larger and fiercer than a 
normal wolf, the same size as Sirius's dog-form (which is itself 
described as bear-like).  He doesn't seem to have a wolf-man hybrid 
form at all, except perhaps as a stage in the transformation.

It's not clear whether Lupin is a typical werewolf, or whether there 
are wolfweres in the Potterverse.


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