Werewolves and RL equivalents

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 170305

Alla:
> 
> Oh, and despite him really really not wanting to eat or kill you, he 
> forgot to take his medication. Yep, he did. Here WW, try to show 
> compassion and tolerance to person like that, here is the challenge 
> to you.

Pippin:
This is where ESE!Lupin shines.  If  Lupin didn't forget to take
his potion after all, (because he took it in secret) then  it 
*won't*  look like JKR is saying that even responsible people 
are going to have compliance issues and that's 
something we ought to live with. She won't be saying we have
to tolerate this behavior any more than we tolerate other
kinds of irresponsible behavior that endanger innocent lives.

Nor will we  have to do a lot of backflips to explain how a
responsible person could, in a moment of madness
which somehow stretched  into hours, forget he was a 
werewolf, forget he hadn't take his potion, and forget that
there would be a full moon. 

The Lupin story wouldn't be about whether it's reasonable to 
expect an adult to be responsible about taking medications 
and managing illness. It would be about whether it's 
reasonable to alienate people from society and still expect 
them to act responsibly towards it. It would be about the 
stigma which people place on werewolves becoming a 
self-fulfilling prophecy. And we know how much
JKR loves those.

Pippin