Talk:Lycacomia Curse

Canonicity
I'm not sure how canonical is the existance of this curse. In Fantastic Beasts, Scamander says that "Humans turn into werewolves only when bitten", but the veracity of this claim is put to doubt in Deathly Hallows (chapter 11), in which Lupin voices his conviction that Teddy will be born a werewolf (even goes by to say that if the baby is not a werewolf, it'd be by "some miracle" - ironically, Teddy was not born a werewolf). Seeing as Lupin was a Defence Against the Dark Arts expert and a werewolf himself, his fears should not be as unfounded as that. If that is so, Scamander either made a mistake, or oversimplified matters in his work (due to the rarity of werewolf breeding, etc.) If we consider this, the existance of this curse could be, theoretically, canon. Still, I am unsure. It directly goes against a cold, hard fact written by Rowling herself, but did Rowling change her mind by the time she wrote Deathly Hallows? (if that is so, we should go by the most recent canon, per our policies) How should it be, then? This curse exists, and Scamander is wrong, or Scamander is right and this curse is totally non-canon? --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 02:25, December 30, 2011 (UTC)