Lupin's behavior (Was: CHAPDISC: DH11, The Bribe)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 180622

Magpie wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180607>:

<< why on earth whether or not werewolfism is passed from father to
son is a question in the WW at this point since people ought to know
by now if it works that way. >>

The Fabulous Beasts book says that the only way people are infected
with werewolfism is by being bitten, which sounds like stating that
werewolfism is not inherited. If that part was written by Newt
Scamander rather than by J. K. Rowling, then the WW experts did know
that werewolfism is not passed from father to son, but Lupin didn't
believe them.

Considering the social stigma against werewolves, and the resultant
feral dirtiness and unattractiveness of most werewolves, I believe it
would be very rare for a werewolf to impregnate a non-werewolf, and
most such cases would be hushed up: if the mother admitted having the
baby, she would claim that the father was someone else. Thus, many
wizarding folk would have never heard of a werewolf begetting a child
and therefore believe that it had never happened before and that the
results were therefore unknown.

As for female werewolves, I believe that the physical transformation
is much too hard on a fetus and they therefore miscarry after the
first or very occasionally the second Full Moon of their pregnancy.