Snape - a werewolf bigot?? Was: Say it isn't so Lupin!!!

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170245

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> 
> I was referring to being a werewolf on that one, not AIDS!  AIDS 
> can be 'controlled' to a much higher degree and is not easily 
> spread.  With lycanthropy, you miss ONE wolvesbane potion and you 
> are so dangerous to society that people have to shoot you with a 
> silver bullet just to put you down.  I'm sorry.. if you had a gun 
> and saw a rabid dog charging through a school, biting people, you 
> would kill it if you could.

Dana:
Interesting because Wolfsbane is just a resent invention and 
Werewolves have been around probably as long as WW society and if you 
are correct then everybody should either be dead or a werewolf. 

Besides who says that Lupin could have gotten into the school in 
these nights events? For one the door are closed and a werewolf is 
rated as a dark creature so it would just be an assumption that he 
would be able to get passed the doors. (unlike Sirius who is just a 
dog animagus) and secondly you apply an irrelevant assumption that 
Lupin would actually have the blood turts for more then one victim a 
night and that is not what is implied by the story told of Greyback 
that he has to place himself near his victim to be able to strike 
that victim and not that he run's around in one single night biting 
as many as he possibly could. 

Also you say that Aids can be controlled, tell that to the people 
still getting infected. 
Werewolves have only one night a month to infect others. People keep 
repeating that werewolves kill there victim but they only do that on 
rare occassions when a werewolf gets carried away. According to Lupin 
himself Werewolves *sometimes* kill to eat, it is not like they have 
humans for dinner every chance they get. It would actually not 
specifically smart for a breed to kill every victim they come across 
or else they would soon be extinct very rapidly. 

You with your gun would posse a bigger risk of missing the dog and 
shooting an innocent by stander then the amount of people that raged 
dog could bite in one go. It only has one mouth but it is indeed 
human nature to kill everything they are scared off. 

Jazmyn: 
> Werewolves should NOT be living and working among normal people.. 
> period.. they are simply TOO dangerous.  They try to kill anyone 
> unable to escape them, not to mention those who survive an attack 
> end up as werewolves themselves.

Dana:
It is probably not a good idea to have a human with a furry problem 
like Lupin working late night shifts but otherwise during the day he 
can never posse a risk to anyone because he only transforms during 
full moon nights and that is only once a month. 

Jazmyn:
> I never said to put people with AIDS in a colony, do not put words 
> in my mouth to justify your position that people who turn into 
> wolves and are driven to attack people in that condition can 'live 
> normal lives'.  They can't as shown by what happened when Lupin 
> missed just ONE potion.

Dana:
I did not put words in your mouth, you did that yourself by stating 
that people with dangerous diseases should be put into a colony. And 
aids is still classified as a life threatinging disease and Lupin is 
not driven to attack people when it is not a full moon either so 
should he therefore be put away because he is a danger to the 
community once a month. Lupin seemed to have controlled his disease 
pretty well as he never has bitten or killed anyone. And yet on the 
basis of your imagination of what could have happened you want to 
suggest that people like him should be put in colonies. It is your 
own fear speaking here and not any logic. Because people in life are 
never safe not even when all people are put away in camps. There are 
still people that will posse a risk to your life without ever having 
endured an illness. The chance of running into a werewolf is actually 
pretty low unless you count Greyback but he like the people in my 
country injecting people with HIV is doing that on purpose. 

What happened with Lupin missing one potion is Sirius getting him 
away from the people Lupin could posse a danger too. That is the fact 
of the story too. 

Jazmyn:
> Are you suggesting that psychotic mass murderers who might miss 
> their medication one day would be safe as teachers?

Dana:
Lupin is not a murderer so comparing him to pshychotic mass murderers 
who can only be classified as such if they actually mass murdered 
sounds stupid to me. But if you want to know people with schizofrenia 
can live pretty normal lives because of their medication too. 
The only problem with this analogy is that Lupin has a normally 
functioning human mind when it is not a full moon night and he is not 
a werewolf. 

JMHO

Dana