Not-Quite Werewolf!Bill

[Peter Schuster]

No: HPFGUIDX 136964

Ginger wrote:

> Now that he has been attacked and has some werewolf tendancies (raw 
> meat), will he still be allowed to work at Gringott's?

As long as the Gringott's chef agrees to serve raw meat... ;)

> But what of the WW?  They are pretty steeped in their prejudices, and 
> DU has passed those anti-werewolf laws.  How strict are those laws?  
> Do they apply only to full-blown werewolves?  Or to any who have been 
> attacked by one?  I can see DU making them as strict as possible just 
> to be mean.  Will they matter to the Goblins?  Do they even apply to 
> the Goblins?  And if so, do the Goblins care?  ;) 

Since Bill was the first case of someone attacked by a
not-so-quite-werewolf, I doubt that the law included that case. You
could try an analogy of course (I don't know if that's correct in
anglo-american law terminology). For that you need a "hole" in the law
which there is as stated above. And it is an unintentional hole. Then
the "ratio", the meaning of the law has to fit to the other case (i.e.
which it doesn't include). That's the question. Werewolves are forbidden
to work (as far as I understand that anti-werewolf-act that I don't
know) because of the danger to others which they cannot control in
certain times. But Bill won't reach that state. So IMHO he won't be
forbidden to work.

On the other hand we must presume that his bide (just like Greyback's
bide in his untransformed state) can harm others. So a Dolores Umbridge
might conclude otherwise.

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