Wolfsbane/Portkey questions

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191426



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Alanna <lilandriss at ...> wrote:
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> Hello all! I have a couple of questions that I was hoping someone could help me with. 
>  
> 1) Wolfsbane potion is supposed to let Lupin/whoever else keep his mind, right? So, would that make him more like an animagus rather than a dangerous, supernatural creature so long as he has taken it? If that's the case, then why does he shut himself away? He's got control of his mind, so he's not dangerous, right? Why isn't he off running around in the forest or, in case of third year, prowling the halls on patrol or something? And why, if he's taking the potion, is in control and isn't dangerous, would he be shunned? 

Pippin:
Unfortunately some werewolves are just as predatory and aggressive when human as they are when transformed. Wolfsbane wouldn't make Fenrir Greyback any safer to be around. 

 There was no trust   between the two communities, and people like Greyback and Umbridge were doing their best to make sure that it stayed that way. JKR shows us how the isolation of the werewolves made it easy for wizards to demonize them and be demonized in return. It's possible that most werewolves weren't any fonder of Greyback than Dumbledore's faction is of Umbridge, but their hostility to wizards and their  inability to muster the power to oppose him openly or remove him from power  might make  it look otherwise to outsiders. 

To be fair, it only took a month or so of exposure to Umbridge's tyranny before Hermione had arranged to permanently mutilate one of her own classmates, so the werewolves might be no worse than Hermione for wanting blood.


Pippin