Werewolves

[Stephanie Roark Keener]

No: HPFGUIDX 25874

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> Hi all,
> > Are there werewolves in the FF?  Is it a myth, created to scare 
the 
> Hogwarts students?  

Maybe it's a rumor left over from Lupin's days in school.  Like the 
Shreiking Shack being huanted.  It was him all along.

And on the condition being genentic -- I don't think so but, um 
having a background in the humanities, I'm afraid to venture much 
further on this subject.  In the past, we've compared in to HIV and 
rabies and malaria (?) -- but, having had a family member with cancer 
recently -- I get the impression it's more like that:  A virus that 
forcibly transfigures your cells.  Only, in this case, it happens 
only during the full moon.  Is there some M.D. or biologist out there 
who could come up with really interesting,and plausible ;) theroy?  
Or, maybe someone's already done this in FanFic?  BTW, there are 
those of us who would really like it if the virus were only 
transmittable during the transfigured phase.

Stephanie