Post by Severus Snape on Feb 6, 2005 17:10:10 GMT -5
[glow=Navy,2,300]The werewolf is a most unusual creature in that it doesn't technically exist except for a brief period of time around the full moon. At any other time, a werewolf is a completely normal human. However, the term werewolf is used for both the wolf-like creature and the normal human. Remus Lupin is a werewolf by definition even if he isn't in the actual form of the wolf.
A werewolf comes into being when a person is bitten by another werewolf. Once this happens, the person much take drastic steps to learn to manage the condition. Modern potion-making has come up with a draught called Wolfsbane Potion which minimizes the effects of condition. Nothing will completely cure a werewolf, unfortunately.
A werewolf when transformed is a fearsome beast indeed. All trace of human awareness is gone and the werewolf will attack any witch or wizard, including the werewolf's best friends. This transformation is triggered when the moon is full, although there is some evidence that a werewolf who is taking a regular regimin of Wolfsbane Potion will not transform until the moonlight actually strikes him. (Lupin, for example, did not transform while he was in the Shrieking Shack, even though the moon was full, until he stepped outside and the full moon came from behind a cloud. Lupin had been taking Wolfsbane Potion for months.)
Discussed in Defence Against the Dark Arts class, with an essay assigned by Snape when he once substituted for Lupin .
Werewolves have been mentioned quite a bit in connection with Harry's Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers.
Quirrell had encountered them in Black Forest . Gilderoy
Lockhart, supposedly, once defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf , something that may be discussed in his book Wandering with Werewolves. Lockhart eventually confessed to Ron and Harry that an 'ugly old Armenian warlock' had actually performed the rescue of a village from werewolves that he himself had taken credit for. Remus Lupin, of course, is a werewolf .
Ron Weasley as a first year had heard that werewolves lived in the Forbidden Forest, but no one has ever affirmed this . Possibly the rumour began while Remus Lupin attended Hogwarts as a child. Draco Malfoy also said that he heard werewolves lived in the Forbidden Forest .
Tom Riddle alleged that Hagrid raised "werewolf cubs" under his bed as a youngster (This, according to JKR, was a slanderous lie from Tom Riddle, since werewolves don't have "cubs".)
Wolfsbane Potion, a recent invention
Werewolf Code of Conduct
According to Scamander, werewolves have been shunted between the Beast and Being Divisions of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for years. At one point, the Werewolf Registry and Werewolf Capture Unit were both in the Beast Division, while at the same time the office for Werewolf Support Services was in the Being Division. [/glow]
A werewolf comes into being when a person is bitten by another werewolf. Once this happens, the person much take drastic steps to learn to manage the condition. Modern potion-making has come up with a draught called Wolfsbane Potion which minimizes the effects of condition. Nothing will completely cure a werewolf, unfortunately.
A werewolf when transformed is a fearsome beast indeed. All trace of human awareness is gone and the werewolf will attack any witch or wizard, including the werewolf's best friends. This transformation is triggered when the moon is full, although there is some evidence that a werewolf who is taking a regular regimin of Wolfsbane Potion will not transform until the moonlight actually strikes him. (Lupin, for example, did not transform while he was in the Shrieking Shack, even though the moon was full, until he stepped outside and the full moon came from behind a cloud. Lupin had been taking Wolfsbane Potion for months.)
Discussed in Defence Against the Dark Arts class, with an essay assigned by Snape when he once substituted for Lupin .
Werewolves have been mentioned quite a bit in connection with Harry's Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers.
Quirrell had encountered them in Black Forest . Gilderoy
Lockhart, supposedly, once defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf , something that may be discussed in his book Wandering with Werewolves. Lockhart eventually confessed to Ron and Harry that an 'ugly old Armenian warlock' had actually performed the rescue of a village from werewolves that he himself had taken credit for. Remus Lupin, of course, is a werewolf .
Ron Weasley as a first year had heard that werewolves lived in the Forbidden Forest, but no one has ever affirmed this . Possibly the rumour began while Remus Lupin attended Hogwarts as a child. Draco Malfoy also said that he heard werewolves lived in the Forbidden Forest .
Tom Riddle alleged that Hagrid raised "werewolf cubs" under his bed as a youngster (This, according to JKR, was a slanderous lie from Tom Riddle, since werewolves don't have "cubs".)
Wolfsbane Potion, a recent invention
Werewolf Code of Conduct
According to Scamander, werewolves have been shunted between the Beast and Being Divisions of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for years. At one point, the Werewolf Registry and Werewolf Capture Unit were both in the Beast Division, while at the same time the office for Werewolf Support Services was in the Being Division. [/glow]
