Werewolf

A **werewolf**, also known as a **lycanthrope**, is a human being who has been infected with lycanthropy. **Lycanthropy**  causes mental degradation to a victim's brain, causing them to turn their backs on humanity and become monsters who seek to wipe humanity out by killing them or turning them into other werewolves. The most iconic part of lycanthropy is the transformation into an uncontrollable, fearsome and deadly wolf upon the rising of the full moon.

## History.

During the 14th century, the Dark Lord Emeric the Evil thoroughly investigated his gift of natural animagic with the purpose of trying to modify his animal form, which was a small dog similar to a croup. Emeric never managed to change his animal form but instead created a curse that consisted of an imposed animagus form, which transformed the victim into a hybrid between human and wolf during the night of the full moon. The curse is transmitted as an infectious disease because if a person is bitten or scratched by a transformed werewolf, the victim will acquire lycanthropy. Emeric is known to have created 13 werewolves; called the Apocalypse pack, and from these 13 come the rest of the werewolves.

## Characteristics.

Werewolves look like a 10-foot-tall wolf-human hybrid, with a burly, muscular body, large claws that can destroy bones, and very powerful jaws with dagger-like fangs. Werewolves have amber eyes and thick fur covers their bodies. The senses of the werewolf are far superior to those of a human being and this characteristic is preserved without being transformed. One of the werewolf's most important weapons is its innate ability to provoke a sense of fear in living things around it, which can cause chronic fear of werewolves that can manifest itself in severe nightmares. This sensation can be blocked with high-level Occlumency. A transformed werewolf loses his ability to reason, turning into a wild and aggressive animal.

Werewolves have regenerative power almost on par with a troll, being able to survive and heal from almost any physical and magical attack, although a werewolf is unable to heal from post-mortem damage and revive as a troll would.

The mind of the person transformed into a werewolf is deranged shortly after acquiring the curse. A werewolf gradually sinks into ostracism, losing the ability to see other human beings as equals and starting to see them as potential prey, even so, a werewolf will begin to prefer the company of other infected, which is why which werewolves form packs commanded by an Alpha, to whom they are extremely loyal, thanks to the magical bond between an alpha and his pack.

After a werewolf's mind is completely lost, he permanently acquires a transitional form similar to his complete transformation, but in this form the werewolf cannot transmit lycanthropy.

## Weaknesses.

Muggle weapons have little effect against a werewolf despite Muggle myths that lycanthropes are weak to silver. Spells are not very effective against a werewolf, so it is best to attack a werewolf in a group and at the same time. The Killing Curse works well against werewolves just like the Fiendfyre. Another effective way to attack a werewolf is to find a way to constantly attack it from within.

Severus Snape designed a spell with the ability to cause death to a werewolf, the Sectumsempra Curse. Said spell is possibly the second deadliest after the Killing Curse regardless of whether the target is a normal human or a werewolf. The Sectumsempra can be powered up with Parselmagic, slicing a werewolf to pieces and killing it instantly.

Werewolves mainly attack humans but in the absence of these they will attack any other animal. Animagus are immune to lycanthropy and werewolves avoid them unless there is prior provocation, due to that there are stories of animagus facing werewolves.

## Treatment.

There is no real cure for lycanthropy. The potioner Damocles Belby, using the Kleinwuchs family research, succeeded in creating a potion; the Wolfsbane potion, which allows a transformed werewolf to keep his mind.

There is a unique case of a wizard being cured of lycanthropy, however. Remus Lupin, a natural-born animagus with the form of a gray wolf, acquired lycanthropy as a child. Due to his inherent animagus abilities, he did not suffer from the mental degeneration that other werewolves suffer. Unfortunately, access to his animagus form was suppressed by the lycanthropy, since the-then child Remus believing that his animagus consciousness and the werewolf consciousness were the same, causing him to reject his animagus half. Once Harry Black reunited Remus' human and animagus personalities, the now-whole Remus was able to forcibly remove the lycanthropy from his body, regaining access to his natural animagus transformation.

## Known werewolves.

* Apocalypse Pack (The original 13 werewolves)

* Fenrir Greyback´s Pack
	+ Alpha: Fenrir Greyback (Imprisoned in Azkaban)
	+ Janos Skorzeny (Deceased)
	+ Stavros Skorzeny (Imprisoned in Azkaban)
	+ About ten werewolves (Imprisoned in Azkaban)

* Tully Pack
	+ Alpha: Eustace Tully (Deceased)
	+ Clarence Tully (Deceased)
	+ George Golightly (Deceased)
	+ Mrs. Golightly (Deceased)
	+ Rose Abernathy (Deceased)
	+ About a dozen werewolves (Deceased)

* Remus Lupin (Cured)

## Canon Divergence

In JKR's Harry Potter series, are only affected by their lycanthropy on the night of the full moon. At all other times, they are normal humans, unaffected by their lycanthropy. As such, only a small amount of werewolves, like Fenrir Greyback, are actively hunted by the Ministry of Magic, as they actively seek to infect more victims.

In TSM's Prince of Slytherin series, lycanthropy is considered a much larger issue, due to the mental degradation caused by the disease. As such, this causes most werewolves to become similar to JKR's Fenrir Greyback, monsters who wish to spread their curse to every human possible. The only known exception to this is Remus Lupin, whose natural animagus magic prevent his mental degradation and led to his eventually cure.