Slytherins and Werewolves (was:Snape vs Lupin/UK vs. US

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No: HPFGUIDX 170521

> >>Magpie:
> You want rambling? I'll give you rambling. I'm kind of fascinated   
> by the way JKR's linked both Snape and Draco to fear or werewolves, 
> as if that's a Slytherin thing (while Sirius is all "Wish it were a 
> full moon! Having a werewolf buddy is fun!). I wonder if there's an 
> Occlumency thing there, the way the Gryffindors tend to like       
> recklessness while the Slytherins are more associated with          
> Occlumency (Snape and Draco both being naturals) who think their   
> emotions (which are almost operatic in their intensity) are a
> weakness. Draco's worried about werewolves as early as PS, and in   
> HBP Fenrir seems to be some symbol of both the scariest thing he    
> can use to threaten others and something he's terrified of himself. 
> You've got this loved werewolf on the Gryffindor side and that     
> seems to be the symbol of something dark on the Slytherin side.
> 
> I don't know, I just thought it was kind of interesting. I wonder if
> there's something that works in the opposite direction--though I   
> don't think so, since we don't know Slytherin as well.

Betsy Hp:
I have a couple of ideas.  One is tied to the blood purity thing.  If 
Slytherins are all about blood-purity (which I have a hard time 
buying, since no other house is *all* about just one thing, but yes 
I'll agree Slytherins are more interested in blood than other houses, 
or at least they'll admit to it <g>) it stands to reason they'd fear 
the one creature that can take it all away from them.  From pureblood 
to half-breed with one bite.

Doesn't work as well with Snape since Snape isn't pureblooded and 
knows it.  But no one says your deepest darkest fears need to be 
logical.

The other is the Slytherin as a female house thing.  Werewolves are 
the embodiment of male aggression, so naturally the feminine 
Slytherins fear them, and the masculine Gryffindors love them.

Which leads to that thing the Gryffindors' fear the most: chest 
monsters, obviously. Dating, hand-holding, talking about feelings, 
associating with *girls* and their *cooties*, in *tea shops of 
DOOOOOM*. GAH!  Madness that gets friend turning on friend and birds 
flying in your face. Most Gryffindor's have found it best to just 
steer clear. (And I'll spare you the quidditch as masturbation 
imagery I started to run with and decided best to delete.) <rbg>

On a more serious note, I agree that we won't get a correlation.  
Alas.

Betsy Hp (meeting your rambling and raising you a random)