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

[lanval1015]

No: HPFGUIDX 170402

> Bruce Alan Wilson wrote: 
> 
> It isn't a perfect analogy, but I'm diabetic. Sometimes I get 
> tired of testing my blood sugar. Sometimes I get fed up with 
> having to consider how many carbs and how much fat is in 
> everything I put in my mouth. I'm not on insulin (yet) but 
> my friends who are say that calculating how much insulin to 
> inject to counteract the carbs and sugar they had at the last 
> meal is a major pain in the epizodic. Intellectually we know 
> how important being vigilent in the management of our condition 
> is, but sometimes we want to just say "The hell with it! If I 
> want a doughnut, I'll have a doughnut! If I don't feel like 
> jabbing myself in the finger to some blood, I won't!" So I 
> can understand why Lupin gets fed up with constantly consulting 
> the lunar phase chart, why sometimes the thought of drinking 
> the Wolfsbane Potion makes him fee nausiated.  Does that mean 
> that the times when he doesn't are OK?  Of course not! But if 
> he didn't, sometimes, feel that way and even act accordingly 
> the character would be unbelievable. 
> 

> 
Lanval: 
Oh, I understand what you're saying. Been there, done that, with a 
hyperactive thyroid some years ago. One DOES get tired of it. 

However, about Lupin in PoA -- in the scene we're discussing, Lupin 
has had the benefit of the potion for the third full moon at most. I 
think he would still be quite happy with the novelty of taking it, 
and feeling its relief (his body likely still aches badly after a 
transformation, but there would be less discomfort because he does 
not attack himself). Or am I forgetting something? I recall him 
mentioning that his transformations used to be terrible "in those 
days", when he speaks of his teenage years. Does that mean he's 
improved since? Shouldn't he have been suffering the same urge to 
bite and scratch himself as an adult, before the potion was made 
available to him? Why speak of it as something that happened long 
ago? Then again, in HBP, he specifically mentions how much relief 
the potion gave to him during his year of teaching at Howarts.

I'm so confused. :) But I still believe that Lupin had no reason to 
resent having to take the potion, at least not this early in the 
year, and shows no sign of doing so, not then and not later. 
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