Werewolves/Blood / Remus is still NOT evil, (Was also: but Arabella is a Squib)

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 82866

I wrote (in a list of reasons why Remus wouldn't be stepping over to 
the Dark Side any time soon):
 >> Racists who don't like people like him, because he isn't a
 pure-blood wizard. >>
 
To which Catlady replied:
>>That has never made sense to me: if he was a pureblood before being 
bitten by a werewolf, why would he stop being a pureblood because of
being bitten? Hey, it's not as if he'd been bitten by a *Muggle*.>> 

Actually, I did consider writing "who don't consider him to be a 
pureblood wizard any more", but didn't, obviously. I'm with you on 
this on, though. Why does Dolores Umbridge refer to Lupin as a "nasty 
half-breed"? It has already been agreed all over this list that 
Riddle's comment about werewolf cubs under Hagrid's bed is 
unreliable, and that the only way to become a werewolf is to be 
bitten. So - not bred. Perhaps the unreliability of  Umbridge's 
statement is designed to display her ignorant prejudice. I assume the 
reason that most wizards don't want to have werewolves round for 
dinner is because they're scared, rather than because of any 
particular blood-snobbery. I imagine this would also be the 
ostensible reasoning behind any anti-werewolf legislation. 
Perhaps, with all the emphasis put on blood throughout the books, the 
purity of blood (wizarding) was supposed to have some sort of 
sanctified power beyond anti-Muggle prejudice in days of yore, so 
that any deviation/infection was considered to weaken this power? 
This might explain why the WW has such good medical cure 
rates/facilities - more emphasis has been put on discovering cures 
than in our own world - and why life expectancy is so much higher.
Obviously, for the story arc of the series to have any meaning at 
all, this legendary power would have to be proved false in some huge, 
climatic, expectation shattering way.

Any thoughts?
Kirstini