[HPforGrownups] Re: forbidden forest (Werewolf Pups)

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 42553

On 13 Aug 2002 at 1:34, Patrick Mahony wrote:

> If there were other werewolves in the Forest, why did Dumbledore see to it that
> Lupin was taken to the Shrieking Shack, rather than somewhere in the forest?
> 

Because Lupin is a Hogwarts student and a minor and is therefore due a 
bit more in the way of protection/supervision from the staff than the 
average non-student werewolf.

Perhaps the talk of werewolves in the Forest was started deliberately to 
keep people away from the area on the nights of the full moon, just in 
case Lupin managed to get out of the Shack.  It wouldn't take much, just 
send Hagrid down to the village for a few pints armed with a few "Seen a 
werewolf t'other day" stories.

  
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