IC Prospective: Sam Winchester (First year)

[camebackhome]

Character: Sam Winchester
Mun: Amanda can't stop want stop
Plot specific: Nope.

If lycanthropy is a disease, why is there such a stigma against werewolves? I mean, I know they're dangerous during the full moon, but there's the wolfsbane potion, right? It makes them not as feral or something. Not to mention transmission happens under very specific circumstances, and there's no proof if it's hereditary. So why do people act like werewolves are so bad? They're still people, right? They're people more than they're wolves.

It's kind of like how people with leprosy were/are treated. There's ways to treat lycanthropy and to keep it from being quite so easily transmitted, but there's such a stigma against the people who have it.

Are there colonies, too?

Comments

[caresawholeawfullot]

Yeah, but what if the potions don't work or something? I mean, I get that they're people, but I think it's fair for people to be scared.

[givesyouaboner]

I didn't know werewolves were real???

[sixbuckdropout]

weve talked about this before sammy. theres the possibility of potions not working & then there are instances of ppl still being influenced by the "disease" even when not changed.

once ur one of them u dont stop being one. humanity ends there.

[accioleggings]

THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

WHILE IT'S TRUE THERE IS A WOLFSBANE POTION TO PREVENT PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM LYCANTHROPY FROM GIVING IN TO THE WOLF'S MINDSET WHILE TRANSFORMED IT'S STILL A VERY NEW CREATION COMPARED TO OTHER MAGICAL TREATMENTS AS WELL AS BEING VERY DIFFICULT TO MAKE. THAT COMBINED WITH CENTURIES-LONG PREJUDICES AGAINST MAGICAL BEINGS WHO AREN'T COMPLETELY HUMAN MAKE PROGRESS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT.

[taleweaving]

An excellent question. I suppose, much like the muggle stigma against leprosy, or in a more recent HIV's, a similarly transferred disease the fear is there 8ecause people don't understand it. They have firm ideas on how it's spread and what the results are and they refuse to look past those to see the people afflicted with them. Even when treatments 8ecome availa8le there is still the idea that these people are some how wrong, cursed, or just dirty, and so people shun them and education never occurs. And I suppose cases of new8orns not understanding their condition, or sometimes not even knowing what it is they are afflicted with and lashing out with it as there is no one there to help them hasn't helped. Then again the wizarding world is filled with age old prejudices, especially against those who aren't simply wizards and witches, though hopefully with He Who Should Not 8e Named's defeat these ideas will 8egin to die out as they are due to.

8ut frankly, a werewolf or a vampire who is aware of their condition and takes measures to treat it is no more harmful than the average human, 8e they muggle or wizard. I'd 8e more concerned a8out dark arts practitioner .

...Am I correct in that you are a Winchester?

[marshall_lee]

I agree with you completely. I mean, a lot of people will argue that once they're turned, a werewolf or a vampire are no longer human. I think that's bullshit. If they take the steps to try and maintain a normal life and don't want to hurt people that makes them just as human as anyone else.
It's all about the choices you make.

[drivensnow]

Anyone who needs a potion to keep themselves under control are certainly not just people. And considering the fact potions can and sometimes do fail without the proper skill, that makes them even more of a problem. People have the right to be afraid and should indeed be afraid. Werewolves and Vampires are dangerous creatures and shouldn't be allowed within normal society.

[pc_cooper]

We have werewolves at Hogwarts?