Lupin after the war (Was:The new headmaster)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117313


 Carol earlier:
> > I think it's overly optimistic to expect virtually the whole WW to
>  completely overcome its fear of werewolves, especially as they 
> do present a very real danger, but a good first step would be a 
> redefinition. Unlike giants, which really are nonhuman (and not 
> very amenable to reason, apparently), and unlike centaurs, 
> which really are half-human (whatever their origins), werewolves 
> are fully human--except for a short time each month, perhaps as 
> short as twenty-four hours, when they're fully beast. They are not 
> born through any union of human and wolf; they are created 
> when one afflicted human bites another. (JKR has said that the 
> werewolf cubs under Hagrid's bed were a lie on Tom Riddle's 
> part; the only werewolf cub is a werewolf child during the full 
> moon.) <
> 
> Pippin responded:
> A small canon correction: Lupin says that if Snape had found 
> him in the shack he'd have met "a fully grown werewolf" PoA ch 
> 18. I think Lupin is emphasizing here that werewolf cubs are 
> completely mythical. Even though Lupin was fifteen or sixteen 
> and not a full grown human, he turned into a full grown wolf -- or 
> have I missed something?
> 
Carol again:
I don't think you've missed anything, only that we're interpreting the
 "fully grown werewolf" quote differently. I'm assuming that, as Lupin
was sixteen during the so-called Prank, he was either fully grown or
very close to it, so his werewolf form would also be full grown. But
he was bitten as a small child, possibly as young as three or four. I
can't imagine a little boy that age turning into a full-grown beast. i
think the implication of the quoted phrase is that werewolves, like
children, start out small.

As for the werewolf cubs being mythical, I read that as meaning that a
female werewolf doesn't give birth to werecubs which could be kept
under young Hagrid's bed. I think a female werewolf, if she were so
unfortunate as to become pregnant, would give birth to a human child
which would not inherit her malady because it hadn't been bitten (or,
alternatively, would, like its mother, be human except during a full
moon even if both mother and baby were in beast form at its birth.
They babies, like most human babies, would be born singly (or as
twins), not in a litter, and if young Rubeus were foolish enough to
put one under his bed, he would find that it had turned into a human
baby after the full moon ended.

But JKR didn't say werewolf cubs were mythical, exactly. she said that
Tom Riddle lied to frame Hagrid. here's the exact quote:

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.

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/1000-livechat-barnesnoble.html

So I hold to my view that little Remus was a werewolf child (or cub)
when he transformed, becoming a fully grown werewolf only in his
mid-to-late teens.

Carol