Werewolf Code of Conduct and other things

[mbmincey2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 40949

Hello! 

My name's Mere and I'm new here and to the Potter universe so... 

Please excuse my ignorance, but have any details of the Werewolf Code 
of Conduct ever been revealed in the any of the Potter books? I'm a 
tad curious being the big Lupin fan that I am. (And he is not evil or 
ever will be! *Mere sticks her fingers in her ears* I'm not listening 
you can't make meeee! La, la, lala, la!)
 
Would he be able to get a license to apparate (I'm thinking a big NO 
here if the Ministry doesn't trust werewolves too much. Or connected 
to the floo network either...) Any other rights werewolves would be 
automatically denied?  

On a side note... Given all the bashing Fudge gets (and rightfully 
so) it is a credit to his character that Fudge is willing to take 
Dumbledore's word and expose children to a werewolf and a half-giant 
if these are individuals that would instantly arouse suspicion in 
most. Something that Crouch Sr wouldn't even hear of! Is Fudge more 
understanding about misfits in the WW then? 

Also, the HP Lexicon mentioned Werewolf Support Services. What could 
they be? Anything akin to Social Security checks involved? Anyplace a 
werewolf could go to transform without being endangered or a threat 
to anyone else? Are the services in place to protect werewolves from 
discrimination? (If so they don't seem to be working for the 
chronically unemployed Lupin very well.) If they are registered do 
any Ministry officials harass them? (Any police brutality assuming 
they knew an individual was a werewolf already? Not as easy to spot 
as skin color, obviously.)  

And what about that wolfsbane potion? It's apparently very difficult 
to make. You need a Potions Master to be able to even make it 
properly. Good bet it's expensive. Any possibility that there were 
less effective treatments before its final creation? (The Lupins 
tried "everything", what's everything (I get the impression it wasn't 
nearly as painless as a bad aftertaste for some reason.))? 

And what about now? Any less effective, less painless treatments that 
could be more affordable? (Not during PoA seeing as how Lupin says 
that wolfsbane is the ONLY thing that helps, but this just doesn't 
click with me for some reason. Medicine can advance in big jumps, but 
goodness surely some sort of testing, research... something! Such an 
effective treatment doesn't come out of the blue. Especially for
a disease that's been around for so long. 
 
One moooore thing... 
 
Surely it's within the common interest of the public to at least
help werewolves to be less dangerous, but is the Ministry not willing 
to help pay for the most effective measure in favor of something far 
cheaper? Is there no government aid to help those who can't afford 
it, assuming it's expensive? Could even the wolfsbane potion itself 
have come sooner had potion masters had more money for research and 
testing? 

I guess I'll never know how things really run in the all-powerful, 
almost Big Brother like Ministry. (They can tell Harry had a spell 
cast in his kitchen but don't know when Voldemort uses Avada Kedavra 
to kill the gardener? There's no "Quick Wormtail we'd better leave" 
or killing the gardener in a non-magical way so as not to alert 
officials. Wouldn't the most forbidden curse set off bells and 
whistles if a simple levitation spell can get an immediate response?) 

I really wish we'd learn more about the Ministry, but I don't think 
Rowling will ever really explore things like Wizarding bureaucracy in 
detail. Rats!    

Oh, and one moooore thing... addressing the argument that Lupin 
will turn evil because of mistreatment may I point out that HARRY was 
raised in an equally taxing existence for eleven years and that he 
turned out okay? It's left them scars, pun gleefully intended, but 
made them all the stronger, wiser, and weary for it. (In fact, 
besides the word pleasant, weary is the word that describes Lupin the 
most in PoA.)If Harry has trouble with trusting authority figures and 
confiding in others then what about Lupin who plays so carefully to 
the vest about everything and is part of a feared minority? Heck, 
even Sirius thought he could be a dark wizard, but to be fair that 
was under special circumstances. 

Come to think of it Harry and Lupin have both been accused of things 
that were either completely off the mark or dangerously close to it. 
Neither is totally innocent either. :) And both, thus far, have been 
depicted as long suffering (and surprisingly stoic!) heroes who go 
through terrible things but still stay good people a la Cinderella. 

(Same thing with Sirius too. He should be a basketcase after Azkaban 
but gradually pulls himself relatively together by the time of GoF.) 

Harry has to continually prove his innocence even to friends and I 
would imagine that Lupin was in the same boat. Or will be again 
perhaps. His being so secretive can't be helping him in a world that 
is naturally inclined to believe the worst in people. And that cool 
dispassion he can switch to and the fascination with the Dark Arts 
must make people nervous. (I have a theory about Lupin's interest in 
the DAs but that's for another long winded post.) He's so 
misunderstood, our Remus. ;) 

And uh, another thing. :) While we can only guess what he's been up 
to for a better part of a decade it just doesn't seem realistic that 
Lupin has spent it so utterly alone as some people seem to imply 
unless he's been a hermit living on island all this time. I 
personally imagine he stuck with individuals in his similar 
predicament. Other outcasts of society (vampires?, other werewolves 
maybe?). 

Whew! That's enough for my first post. :) Sorry it's so disorganized, 
but I don't have a pensive and must pour out all these ideas as best 
I can. 

Cheers, 
 
Mere