Werewolves and RL equivalents (was:Re: Snape - a werewolf bigot?...)

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170294

> wynnleaf
> How is it that the "sexual predator" parallel *can't* be used 
> because they are "always on the prowl," whereas Lupin is only 
> driven to kill others monthly, but you *can* parallel being a 
> werewolf to real life diseases even though those who are afflicted 
> are *never* "on the prowl?"  
> 
> Seems to me a bit arbitrary.

Dana:
A sexual predator feeds on the power (and not the sex) he has over 
its victims and is not by definition a victim of a disease like Lupin 
is. A sexual predator is created by circumstances and uncontrolled 
fantasies and is not classified as being caused by a disease they 
have no control over. There are mental diseases that can control the 
human brain but sexual predators are mostly sociopaths and not victim 
of a human mental disease. We call these people sick people but that 
is because their behavior makes us sick and not because their 
behavior is caused by an illness. Seeing their victims suffer is what 
feeds the hunger for more as it makes them feel even more powerfull 
and that indeed classifies Greyback but certainly not all werewolves. 
A werewolf has no human thoughts, it is driven by its instincts of 
the creature the disease transforms the human into. Lupin is not a 
person that feeds on having power and neither is his werewolf part. 

Virusses do not feed on people because they want power over that 
person but it is the way they survive and multiply and thus are able 
to exist. That seems like what a werewolf does, doesn't it. It 
doesn't act like a human it acts like a virus. 

As I said when Lupin transforms he is no longer human, he is no 
longer Lupin but a sexual predator is always that person living 
within his own fantasy. 

JMHO

Dana