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Defense Against the Dark Arts for Muggles [Wednesday]
"I apologize for my absence last week," Remus said, smiling at the class and very definitely in better spirits. "My health took an unfortunate turn. I blame Professor Black's cooking."
Because you two needed to seem more gay, Remus. Really. "Today, however, we will be covering something a bit more serious than our prior classes." He slanted a look towards Sirius, as if to say, You couldn't have covered this when I was absent?
Sirius gave him a look back that said, Because you really wanted them to make this connection. I'm not Snape.
...it was a very complicated look.
"We're discussing dark creatures that have an ethical dilemma attached: those that are -- or were -- human, and still have human thoughts, emotions, and impulses. Vampires are hardly unfamiliar territory to this school. Where we're from, vampires are created by a human getting bitten by a vampire. Vampires are not born -- they're created. They might be your brothers, or sisters, or husbands or wives or mothers or fathers or friends. It makes the decision about what to do with them that much trickier."
"The same," Remus said carefully, keeping his face schooled, "is true of werewolves. They're bitten -- often as children, or in helpless positions -- by a transformed werewolf. If someone is bitten by a werewolf who is in his or her human form, the victim will just have some lupine tendencies--generally a strong urge for raw meat. Werewolves change form with the full moon, while vampires remain vampires all the time. There are also hags, which are savage sorts of witches who eat children. No, your parents were not lying to you all those years ago." He smiled, trying to keep his face neutral. "And then there are merpeople, centaurs, gryphons -- the sorts of beasts that are fearsome, and often humanoid, but don't want to be classified with us. Humans," he corrected.
Sirius's eyes twinkled at him. "There's a great deal of political controversy at home for people who have been turned into humanoid dark creatures, and whether they should be afforded the same rights as regular human witches and wizards. They didn't choose to be bitten. But logic seldom has a place in these sorts of arguments. And it's better not to be bitten through ignorance, so today we're going to make sure you know how to tell the difference between vampires and humans, and wolves and werewolves, hags and just unattractive people."
[ETA: If anyone wants to put two and two together vis a vis Remus, like Hermione did in canon, you're welcome to!]
Because you two needed to seem more gay, Remus. Really. "Today, however, we will be covering something a bit more serious than our prior classes." He slanted a look towards Sirius, as if to say, You couldn't have covered this when I was absent?
Sirius gave him a look back that said, Because you really wanted them to make this connection. I'm not Snape.
...it was a very complicated look.
"We're discussing dark creatures that have an ethical dilemma attached: those that are -- or were -- human, and still have human thoughts, emotions, and impulses. Vampires are hardly unfamiliar territory to this school. Where we're from, vampires are created by a human getting bitten by a vampire. Vampires are not born -- they're created. They might be your brothers, or sisters, or husbands or wives or mothers or fathers or friends. It makes the decision about what to do with them that much trickier."
"The same," Remus said carefully, keeping his face schooled, "is true of werewolves. They're bitten -- often as children, or in helpless positions -- by a transformed werewolf. If someone is bitten by a werewolf who is in his or her human form, the victim will just have some lupine tendencies--generally a strong urge for raw meat. Werewolves change form with the full moon, while vampires remain vampires all the time. There are also hags, which are savage sorts of witches who eat children. No, your parents were not lying to you all those years ago." He smiled, trying to keep his face neutral. "And then there are merpeople, centaurs, gryphons -- the sorts of beasts that are fearsome, and often humanoid, but don't want to be classified with us. Humans," he corrected.
Sirius's eyes twinkled at him. "There's a great deal of political controversy at home for people who have been turned into humanoid dark creatures, and whether they should be afforded the same rights as regular human witches and wizards. They didn't choose to be bitten. But logic seldom has a place in these sorts of arguments. And it's better not to be bitten through ignorance, so today we're going to make sure you know how to tell the difference between vampires and humans, and wolves and werewolves, hags and just unattractive people."
[ETA: If anyone wants to put two and two together vis a vis Remus, like Hermione did in canon, you're welcome to!]
Re: Activity! [04/07]
For now, he'd fidget with the photographs and reflect that this Cullen chap just looked ill.