Textbook reliablility? RE: Lupin, mon amour was Re: Page-filler Lupin [the_old_crowd]

[pippin_999]

Silmariel
> I don't like furbys, that's a fact. I thought the extremist part could near 
> Fenris, but only in pass, I didn't even knew if they breeded or they bite. I 
> saw Scamander using a light tone not to give a too bad impression, but the 
> history underneath is usually bloody and violent.
> 
> Now that I know it is by bite, I have to ask myself how they reproduce, if it 
> was only by accident, I think the population curve would tend to 0, so I 
> assume every generation has had its share of Greybacks.

Pippin:
I suspect the wizards didn't give much thought to protecting Muggles
from werewolves until the statutes of secrecy were passed. I can see
the nastier sort of wizard using them to hunt Muggles, sort of like
a fox hunt but with broomsticks. 

Silmariel:
> Very extreme, that other example, I'll keep with Scamander. I'm not very 
> interested in a realistic background for the evolution of the WW, but then, I 
> have to ask: Any type of knowledge in every part of the world was treated 
> that way, or cultures/societys made a difference? Wizards strike me as very 
> international very early (they unite against muggles, half breeds and other 
> species, but I haven't seen religious/terrytorial/etnic wars between them to 
> create compartimentalized knowledge), with an international council in 1750.

Pippin:
I'm not an anthropologist either, but there's  a reason they call them 
traditional societies. If you are surviving harvest to harvest, or witchhunt
to witchhunt, then innovation is unacceptably risky. There's no going
back to the drawing board if you get it wrong.

Pippin