Werewolf Mystery

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 153787

> 
> Lanval, who's intrigued by the responses so far, but still hasn't 
> found an answer as to whether we're dealing with a contradiction 
> within the text, or whether the two different viewpoints of a) 
> Werewolves as Killers, and b) Werewolves as Occasionally Lethal 
> Werewolf-Makers can be reconciled
>

Pippin:
There is similar confusion about real life wolves.  Maybe JKR did not know that when she 
began and decided to work it into the story, or maybe she did know when she began and 
decided to work it into the story :)

 Wolves don't generally deserve their reputation as killers. Still, hopping into  the wolf 
enclosure at your local zoo is not safe, and tricking someone into entering it might well be  
murderous. Captive wolves are much more dangerous than wild ones. 

Lupin  well-fed and in the company of the animagi, who seemed to restrain his 
wolfishness, might only need to be kept away from the humans who triggered his 
werewolf behavior.

Lupin  confined in the Shrieking Shack , without the animagi, provoked by the presence of 
a human, in pain from the bites and scratches he'd inflicted on himself, could be very 
dangerous. 

I would be  careful about classifying Lupin's involvement in the prank as a figment of 
Snape's imagination until Book Seven is in. We thought the DADA curse was a figment of 
the imagination too.


Pippin