The Shyish Student (An Amethyst Apprentice in Hogwarts) [Warhammer Fantasy/Harry Potter] Crossover

SinisterPorpoise said:
Granted, "werewolf bites don't heal and never stop bleeding without proper application of an antidote", but that's about it.
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Oh!! A bit like nagini, then? She was this close to dispatch Arthur Weasley permanently.

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And nagini's venom seems to share some properties with the bites inflicted by werewolves.

'How are you, Arthur?' asked Mrs. Weasley, bending down to kiss his cheek and looking anxiously into his face. 'You're still looking a bit peaky. '
'I feel absolutely fine,' said Mr. Weasley brightly, holding out his good arm to give Ginny a hug. 'If they could only take the bandages off, I'd be fit to go home. '
'Why can't they take them off, Dad?' asked Fred.
'Well, I start bleeding like mad every time they try,' said Mr. Weasley cheerfully, reaching across for his wand, which lay on his bedside cabinet, and waving it so that six extra chairs appeared at his bedside to seat them all. 'It seems there was some rather unusual kind of poison in that snake's fangs that keeps wounds open. They're sure they'll find an antidote, though; they say they've had much worse cases than mine, and in the meantime I just have to keep taking a Blood-Replenishing Potion every hour.
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Does this mean that nagini is as dangerous as a werewolf? Because if so, then Neville would be approximately as strong as, according to @Earth-Destroyer 's calculations, 20 combat trained wizards.

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This would have made the kid ripped as f*ck, then.

Earth-Destroyer said:
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It is very much so werewolf's are classed as xxxxxx level threat IE only a full team of at least 20 combat trained wizards are considered enough to take a single werewolf on.
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Don't you think you may have gotten a bit overboard here? Because, in all honesty, I haven't read anywhere in the books that werewolves are such a menace that a single werewolf may require an entire battalion of wizards specifically trained to bring it down.

The only magical creature native to Britain that I have actually seen to be deemed such an armed force being necessary to be handled, would be the dragons that were meant to serve as the main obstacle to overcome for the first task, and they didn't demand so much as six wizards per dragon to keep it asleep.

Dragons.
Four fully grown, enormous, vicious-looking dragons were rearing onto their hind legs inside an enclosure fenced with thick planks of wood, roaring and snorting - torrents of fire were shooting into the dark sky from their open, fanged mouths, fifty feet above the ground on their outstretched necks. There was a silvery-blue one with long, pointed horns, snapping and snarling at the wizards on the ground; a smooth-scaled green one, which was writhing and stamping with all its might; a red one with an odd fringe of fine gold spikes around its face, which was shooting mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; and a gigantic black one, more lizard-hike than the others, which was nearest to them.
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At least thirty wizards, seven or eight to each dragon, were attempting to control them, pulling on the chains connected to heavy leather straps around their necks and legs. Mesmerized, Harry looked up, high above him, and saw the eyes of the black dragon, with vertical pupils like a cat's, bulging with either fear or rage, he couldn't tell which. . . . It was making a horrible noise, a yowling, screeching scream. . . .
"Keep back there, Hagrid!" yelled a wizard near the fence, straining on the chain he was holding. "They can shoot fire at a range of twenty feet, you know! I've seen this Horntail do forty!"
"Is'n' it beautiful?" said Hagrid softly.
"It's no good!" yelled another wizard. "Stunning Spells, on the count of three!"
Harry saw each of the dragon keepers pull out his wand.
"Stupefy!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Spells shot into the darkness like fiery rockets, bursting in showers of stars on the dragons' scaly hides -
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Harry watched the dragon nearest to them teeter dangerously on its back legs; its jaws stretched wide in a silent howl; its nostrils were suddenly devoid of flame, though still smoking - then, very slowly, it fell. Several tons of sinewy, scaly-black dragon hit the ground with a thud that Harry could have sworn made the trees behind him quake.
The dragon keepers lowered their wands and walked forward to their fallen charges, each of which was the size of a small hill. They hurried to tighten the chains and fasten them securely to iron pegs, which they forced deep into the ground with their wands.
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Granted that, considering they had been already chained up, perhaps a frenzied dragon on the loose would have required a larger team to overcome it.

10ebbor10 said:
Where did you get that from?
Afaik, a HP werewolf is just a wolf (or humanoid wolf creature). Smarter, because it's human. More vicious, because of the whole killer wolf mind.
But it's not superpowered;
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And see, that's one of the things that puzzles me the most regarding the stigma surrounding werewolves, because I can't quite wrap my head around what exactly makes werewolves so feared. Sure, it would be just what @Stewart9 said about the underlying implications of what getting the curse meant for those infected

Stewart9 said:
That is probably the thing that makes the Curse so feared and despised because if is permanent Dark Magic unlike the Unforgivable Curse that hijacks a persons body and Mind completely with our things like Wolfsbane to help. It's hard to get people to willing stay near someone who could give you that kind of Curse and thus those who have it are outcast.
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But it's more than that. For what I have seen in the books, and additional content, wizards are short of outright falling into hysteria when confronted with the prospect of facing a werewolf in person, be it either in their human form, or fully transformed, and I just wonder why.

I mean, considering how powerful wizards in harry potter are supposed to be, what with being able to wield magics that allow their users to tamper with the mind, bend space to their will, thus making small rooms enormous on the inside, and also being able to make entire locations unmappable, one would think that something that would scare wizards so much as to shun their own people who have contracted the disease, should be something absolutely terrifying and nightmarish. An abomination straight out of the deepest pits of hell.

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But no. Werewolves are, as you said, basically wolves. In fact, they are almost indistinguishable from wolves,. The only thing that only set them apart from real wolves, leaving aside the minor physical differences, like the shorter snout, more human-like eyes, and the tufted tails, is their uncharacteristically aggressive behavior towards people, that compelled them to target humans almost exclusively and posed very little danger to any other creature, since true wolves were unlikely to attack a human except under exceptional circ*mstances.

And don't get me wrong, I am perfectly aware of how dangerous wolves can be, but is also true that wolves are at their most lethal when they go in packs, whereas werewolves, on the other hand, are rather solitary in nature, and rarely gather in large groups.

And as I said, I find very strange that wizards are so deadly afraid of the mere existence of werewolves, when the form they take under the full moon is the one of a canid. And not a giant one, mind you, but just your run-of-the-mill everyday wolf.

Oksbad said:
In her small but cosy home, Chiara Lobosca settles in for the night. She has dinner, reads for work, reads for pleasure, and writes a few letters. She spends the final hour before moonrise ensuring her house is secure.
She knows the transformation is here not from the moonlight, but from the pain. She hisses and and whimpers as teeth erupt, muscles bulge, and a coat of white hair forces its way through her skin. Fortunately, chains and cages are unnecessary. Thanks to the Wolfsbane potion, her thoughts are not on murder and mayhem, but on curling up in her bed and sleeping after a tiring day. Her mind is human.
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For crying out loud, this is what Chiara Lobosca would look like, according to the description provided in this excerpt.

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Here is your terrifying monster, wizards. The stuff of your nightmares. The boogeyman you scare your children off with stories of it taking them away if they misbehave. Indeed, my knees are shaking in paralyzing dread. I don't know wether I will be able to stop myself from screaming while I run in the opposite direction.

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For the record, I headcanon this would be Chiara's "Bruh" face, in her wolf form, after drinking the Wolfsbane potion, should she find out it was magister grey the one responsible for her secret to be spilled out.

Lobosca isn't happy with your bullsh*t, grey. Not at all.

The Shyish Student (An Amethyst Apprentice in Hogwarts) [Warhammer Fantasy/Harry Potter] Crossover - Fantasy (2024)

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