Maligning Lupin

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 149836

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> Pippin:
> 
> There are many Muggleborns and halfbloods who should
> understand that human fallibility, exacerbated by poverty and
> discrimination, can precipitate crime and terrorism without 
> any help from Dark Magic or mind-altering diseases. Those
> people are going to have more influence once Voldemort is 
> defeated, or so I hope.

Renee:
What makes you hope so? Voldemort was believed to be gone for fourteen
years, yet we've heard nothing about any Muggleborn wizards or
halfbloods breaking a lance for werewolves or any other
oppressed/shunned/mistreated minorities during this time.
 
Pippin: 
> As for the Trio, they've got Bill. 

Renee:
Bill is not a full werewolf; he doesn't transform and probably won't
be considered a big threat to society. But even if he were to suffer
prejudice, he can't serve as an example of carrying on and remaining a
decent guy for years despite very unfavourable circumstances. He was
bitten too recently for that.   

 
> Renee:
>  We also read that werewolves are contstantly shunted between the
> Beast and Being department of the Ministry. To me, this says they're
> considered to be different.
> 
> Pippin:
> The educated opinion about werewolves is that they're human,
> FBAWTFT tells us so, and that's a ministry approved text. 
> 
> My thought is the tug of war between the Beast and Being divisions is
> mostly logistical. The Beasts folks would have all the staff and
> equipment they need to deal with transformed werewolves, so why
> duplicate it in Beings? The Beings folks would counter that 
> werewolves, being human, deserve a sensitivity to their needs 
> which the Beasts folks don't have. 
> 
> Bottom line, it's a rare bureaucrat that'd vote to make his
> department smaller.<g>

Renee:
True enough! 

All the same it would be a problem to have the Werewolf Capture Unit
resort under the Beings division, because this unit does deal with
beasts/dark creatures. Werewolves may be human most of the time, but
every once in a while they are murderous beasts, even according to
Scamander. (Or else they'd have nothing to seek in a book about
Fantastic *Beasts*.) That's enough to make them different in the eyes
of the WW.      

Also, Scamander's text may be Ministry approved, this didn't prevent
Umbridge from issuing laws that deprive werewolves of the basic human
right of employment. Umbridge works for the Ministry. Apparently no
one there stopped her, so it seems the `educated opinion' carries
little weight against the prevailing prejudice.   

Pippin
>  he'd betrayed Dumbledore, who'd done so much for him,
> for the sake of a good time with his friends. 
> 
> If he could do that, betray a man who'd helped him so much just for a 
> lark,   couldn't he betray his friends for the far nobler cause of 
> werewolf liberation? 
> 

Renee:
You're comparing apples and oranges here by calling them both round
fruits. Lupin did not betray Dumbledore into the hands of his enemies.
So why would he betray his friends to Voldemort? 

Renee