Possible silly question about Werewolves

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 78563

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barb "psychic_serpent" 
<psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:

> 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)

Presumably werewolf bites require treatment to keep the victim from 
*dying* -- that would be why the poor chap is in instead of worrying 
at home. I suppose there is some toxin or curse in werewolf bites 
that does more than transmitting the disease and more than a normal 
wolf bite. Maybe it keeps the blood from clotting so that the patient 
is in danger of bleeding to death from the tiniest nip that broke a 
millimeter of skin (similar to Arthur's snakebite but more extreme) 
or maybe it starts digesting the flesh like rattlesnake venom ... 
Anyway, the special treatment is magical and that would be what the 
kids studied in DADA.
 
> 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 you know, JKR dealt with that:
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/1000-livec
hat-barnesnoble.html

<< Q: In Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid is supposed to have raised
werewolf cubs under his bed. Are these the same kind of werewolves
as Professor Lupin? 

JKR: No. Riddle was telling lies about Hagrid, just slandering him.>>

That Riddle could tell such a lie, one that would be easily caught by 
anyone who had studied the werewolf chapter in FABULOUS BEASTS, shows 
how ignorant of werewolves are the general run of wizarding folk. 
Such as the ignorance shown by Draco in your next quote. 
 
> 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 

Maybe the stories of werewolves in the Forbidden Forest all go back 
to the same source as the stories of rowdy ghosts in the Shrieking 
Shack ... a decade and a half earlier, people had heard Moony howling 
(and surely Padfoot) barking, and they told stories of it ever since.