Werewolves

[maidne at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25851

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> Hi all,
> We've been looking at the Forbidden Forest recently, which gives me 
> the opportunity to bring up something I have asked before, and not 
> had much of a response on.
> 
> Are there werewolves in the FF?  Is it a myth, created to scare the 
> Hogwarts students?  If so, why don't more of them have more common 
> sense about this, because either:
> There is a community of werewolves who live in the forest, all the 
> time, whether they are wolf or human
> or:
> Werewolves apparate there at the time of the month so they are away 
> from humans and are contained there.
> or:
> werewolves couldn't possibly be found in the FF if not one of the 
> above.
> 
> Plausible?
> 
> Finally, do werewolf cubs exist?  Is the condition genetic?  Or is 
it 
> only passed on by biting etc.???
> 
> Catherine

Didn't JKR say in an interview that there are no werewolf cubs?  I 
think I remember her saying that Riddle was lying when he said the 
Hagrid raised werewolves under his bed.

Susan