An Essay Exploring the subject of Werewolves
By Teddy Lupin
Werewolves are normal, every day people who are unfortunate enough to suffer from the illness Lycanthropy. This means that once a month, when there is a full moon, they transform into a werewolf and remain that way until sunrise the next day. At all other times they are just like everybody else and there is no way of telling whether or not somebody has the disease when there is no full moon.
In general people are either very afraid or simply disgusted by werewolves and this is utterly ridiculous because they are only dangerous when there is a full moon. In actual fact this is not even the case for many werewolves these days because they can drink Wolfsbane potion, which lets them keep their mind when they are in wolf form. If more people would recognize this fact the problem that we have with werewolves would not be as bad as it is now, because if people were more accepting and did not look down at the werewolves, they would be able to get better jobs and then they could all buy themselves Wolfsbane and they wouldn't be dangerous anymore. They could do normal, regular jobs, like teaching for example.
Werewolves look different from normal wolves in a number of ways, including the shape of their snouts, the pupils of their eyes and their tufty tails. A person can only be truly infected by lycanthropy if they are bitten by a werewolf and the condition is not hereditary. If attacked when the werewolf is not transformed you won't become a werewolf, but may acquire some wolfish qualities. For example you might end up being a bit hairy. But this is very rare because only a psychopath would actually bite another person without being transformed.
There are lots of different ways to kill a werewolf, but in my opinion the most effective method is to hit him with the unforgivable curse Avada Kedavra, especially when he is busy defending lots of innocent people against Death Eaters. That way he can die a hero and not a worthless nobody like lots of foolish people think he was.