Pureblood werewolves
I'm deep in revising my MS, which of course I should have started earlier, but I am very excited about it and about the new book by McMahon-Coleman and Weaver on recent werewolves in pop culture. I'm re-reading it more thoroughly now, and I'm pleased to see that, yes, there's plenty more to be said!
For one thing, I don't agree with absolutely everything. For another, the authors don't cover all the new werewolf stuff. How could they? There is so much of it, and it's not going to slow down. Anne Rice just waded in to the ring as the former Heavyweight of the World in vamp literature. You think she's going to write *one werewolf book* and then stop? With Anne Rice priming the pump, there is no way it's going to stop anytime soon. I don't think they cover Patricia Briggs and definitely not Jim Butcher, though maybe he doesn't count as "recent." They definitely didn't get into the Parasol Protectorate books, and with a werewolf love interest along the lines of Radcliffe Emerson in the Amelia Peabody books, that definitely counts. So hurray for more to say!
What REALLY got me going was this: there's a chapter on werewolf genetics and there's a page or two on the way "purebred" or "pureblood " werewolves are depicted in several books.
My gosh, you guys. Does that raise all kinds of questions in your mind about what a "pureblood werewolf" would be in the Potterverse? I'm voting for wealthy pureblood families keeping those members of the family locked up, like Arianna Dumbledore, rather than kicked out, as somebody who was kicked out and then caught would reflect poorly on the family . Did they get blasted off the family tree? Did the family say that they died? What about post-wolfsbane potion? Given that the family would have access to it and would be wealthy enough to pay for it, would it be better to keep up appearances and allow that person to be a functioning member of society? Or would a werewolf born into a pure blood family be “put out of its misery?”
Interesting questions, wouldn't you say? Perhaps something to touch on at a future convention?
I'm using my dictation software again, as writing longhand really does seem to make the tendinitis flare in a way had in a long time.
For one thing, I don't agree with absolutely everything. For another, the authors don't cover all the new werewolf stuff. How could they? There is so much of it, and it's not going to slow down. Anne Rice just waded in to the ring as the former Heavyweight of the World in vamp literature. You think she's going to write *one werewolf book* and then stop? With Anne Rice priming the pump, there is no way it's going to stop anytime soon. I don't think they cover Patricia Briggs and definitely not Jim Butcher, though maybe he doesn't count as "recent." They definitely didn't get into the Parasol Protectorate books, and with a werewolf love interest along the lines of Radcliffe Emerson in the Amelia Peabody books, that definitely counts. So hurray for more to say!
What REALLY got me going was this: there's a chapter on werewolf genetics and there's a page or two on the way "purebred" or "pureblood " werewolves are depicted in several books.
My gosh, you guys. Does that raise all kinds of questions in your mind about what a "pureblood werewolf" would be in the Potterverse? I'm voting for wealthy pureblood families keeping those members of the family locked up, like Arianna Dumbledore, rather than kicked out, as somebody who was kicked out and then caught would reflect poorly on the family . Did they get blasted off the family tree? Did the family say that they died? What about post-wolfsbane potion? Given that the family would have access to it and would be wealthy enough to pay for it, would it be better to keep up appearances and allow that person to be a functioning member of society? Or would a werewolf born into a pure blood family be “put out of its misery?”
Interesting questions, wouldn't you say? Perhaps something to touch on at a future convention?
I'm using my dictation software again, as writing longhand really does seem to make the tendinitis flare in a way had in a long time.