[HPforGrownups] Werewolves and Sirius Black

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 36157

uncmark wrote:
> 
> I was rereading PofA and found in Ch 20 where Lupin changed into a
> werewolf, Sirius morphed into dog form to protect HRH. According to
> the book, "Black was bleeding; there were gashes across his muzzle
> and back,"
> 
> Are we thereforew to assume that Sirius Black is now a werewolf? Or
> are anamagi in animal form immune to lycanthropy curses?

Apparently they are.  Lupin remarks that "Werewolves are only
dangerous to people," and that seems to have been the rationale
behind the Marauders' study of the Animagus spell to begin with. 
In animal form they could be with Remus safely even when he was
transformed.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>