Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:Your mitose theory is brilliant and quite plausible in the content of the series. It's great the Rowling used her very real struggles with depression in her stories to create memorable 'monsters' and to help overcome her depression (or rather, work through it).
I like that explanation since it resonates with the tendency of depression to be infectious within a family. That is to say, a depressed person may be miserable him or herself, which makes other family members miserable and bewildered, which, in turn, tends to make the depressed person feel even worse. Especially if an initial trigger, such as the loss of a job, or difficulty finding a new one makes it even harder to cope without outside help.
shastatwin wrote:werewolves who want to have families (or do have them) would want to have the potion available. Perhaps the best route to take would be for those with the skill to make the potion to do so and to make it available more readily so that werewolves would be able to keep from harming others.
Though taking one's medicine is the responsible thing to do, and yes, Remus Lupin did function well when he had the potion, that is not the only problem with a complaint like lycanthropy. There is the transmission/infection problem in the first place, and the chance that even a well-meaning werewolf will forget to take the potion when under stress or in an unexpected emergency.
There is also the fear the general public, whether muggle or wizard, continues to have of a disease of any sort, even non-infectious but debilitating diseases like epilepsy and asthma. Then there are the conscientious objectors who, fearing side effects from such a potion, disagree with administering it, no matter how necessary it is. And, in the wizarding world, there are others, like Fenrir Greyback, who positively glory in their condition and are quite happy to pass it on, if they can. As in the case of suffering depression, there needs to be support for the family of a werewolf, not just making werewolves take potions to keep them harmless.
Do you think a law implementing the mandatory use of the Wolfsbane potion should be passed? Why do you think it has not until now? Let us know in the comments below!
The laws and the attitudes to werewolves were discriminatory in the Wizarding World, and so changing laws to get affected wizards to take potions were not a priority for those legislators who didn't regard werewolves as even part human. Besides, there were probably other wizards like Gilderoy Lockhart, who claimed to have used the homomorphus charm to de-werewolf the Wagga Wagga Werewolf. The homorphus charm, if it is real, might be another possible cure for werewolfism, even though Gilderoy Lockhart was only good at charming lady admirers.
DiGoRyKiRkE wrote: Harry was bitten by a basilisk in the chamber of secrets. . . so why wasn't the connection between he and Voldemort severed there and then?
All but one other of the horcruxes were encased in inanimate objects such as Hufflepuff's cup of plenty, Ravenclaw's crown of wisdom, or Tom Riddle's diary, so a direct stab with a basilisk tooth would settle the horcrux easily enough, though it would destroy the object as well. But Harry, who killed the basilisk with Gryffindor's sword, was a living person, would be poisoned by basilisk venom when he was bitten. In fact he was dying in the Chamber of Secrets and had to be revived by Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, who shed tears onto the bite to heal him.
There could be a plothole in the story, I agree, but the final way to kill the Harrycrux was for Voldemort to AK Harry, thus killing his own bit of torn soul, rather than Harry, who remained protected by his mother's blood sacrifice, and Voldemort's actions in GOF at the Graveyard.
I hope that explains your question.