Possible silly question about Werewolves

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 78560


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Darklady" <kkreinke at e...> 
> wrote:
> > Lupin, in discussing his lycanthropy, says that "they didn't 
> > have a cure BACK THEN." (Emphasis obviously my own. ) Would that 
> > not imply that there is a cure NOW? If so - why has not Lupin 
> > been cured? 

I believe he meant a cure for the SYMPTOMS.  The Wolfsbane Potion is 
only a cure for the werewolf aggression (it renders him docile).  
The potion is not a cure for the transformation itself, and if all 
of the optimum conditions are not present, it doesn't work. (It has 
to be taken without fail for a week before the full moon, and sugar 
renders it useless.)

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "S Handel" <fc26det at a...> 
wrote:

> In OOP Mr. Weasley refers to a person in St. Mungos "Bitten by a 
> werewolf, poor chap. No cure at all."  So even now there is no 
> cure.  I think in the book you were listening to they meant that 
> when Remus was bitten there was no "treatment" either.

Quite right.  I think she's getting better about her werewolf lore, 
but the books still have silly things in them like the kids being 
taught to 'treat' werewolf bites in DADA (I believe the 'treatment' 
would be to resign yourself to the fact that you're now a werewolf), 
and the remark about Hagrid raising werewolf cubs under his bed 
(which was hopefully a tongue-in-cheek comment, as werewolf 'cubs' 
would be human children most of the time).  

As for Draco Malfoy being worried about going into the forest 
because of werewolves--if the moon isn't full, that shouldn't be a 
problem, but nothing is said about that.  I sincerely doubt that 
there are any werewolves 'living' in the forest, whereas there MAY 
be some folks who take refuge in there for their monthly 
transformations on the theory that humans tend to avoid the forest 
and there wouldn't be anyone around for the werewolves to hurt 
(assuming that the lycanthropes in question don't want to wake up 
the next day with a huge guilt complex and a murder charge). 
 
--Barb

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