Getting some threads rolling

[Vanessa Wendorf]

Alexander is a neurosurgeon from Scotland who is visiting England for the first time. I would love to get more threads with him I think he needs to get a little more involved. I'm thinking that he needs to get into some trouble along the way as well. It would make things interesting for him. If your interested please let me know

[Elijah Krum]

I'm not sure how/why they'd meet but I have Victoire and she's a Healer so maybe they run into each other at a conference or something. Maybe she's learning about Muggle medicine and they meet at the noms table or something, I dunno?

I also have Baldric. He's Scottish. That's basically the only link I have.

Ooh. I also have Elizabeth. She's Scottish too but more importantly ... how much, despite being a neurosurgeon, does Alexander know about blood? She'd be curious to corner him and find out.

[Everly Bardugo]

I dunno if this is what you'd be interested in, but I have a werewolf named Nessa, and maybe she gets hurt and I believe (I should probably check our little lore thread, though) weres heal pretty quickly, so he might be all o.O if he sees her healing and be weirdly curious? She hates being a werewolf so she might actually spill the beans about all of the weird stuff going on, and how magic can heal people more quickly? Might be interesting.

[Selwyn Thorfinn]

Magical people in general heal more quickly, but werewolves heal more slowly than most witches and wizards. It's a HIV metaphor, remember.

On the other hand the werewolf change is akin to a seizure, and that would definitely pique a neurosurgeon's interest, if you wanted to put him in danger.

[Everly Bardugo]

According to lore pretty much anywhere else, they heal rapidly. There's nothing specific on the Harry Potter wiki or lexicons or anything. Metaphor or not, it's more likely that they would heal quickly from typical injuries. They're stronger creatures than regular witches and wizards, so it doesn't make sense that they would take longer to heal. I'll ask Khaat, but until she says otherwise, I'm going to go with the general consensus they heal more quickly.

[Khaat Lupin]

I think we're splitting hairs here a bit. the hiv metaphor on rowlings part was meant to symbolize the sociological stigmas and relationship issues that parallel hiv, all of which are fairly stereotypical of lyncanthropy as a standard literary construct.

there's nothing mentioned in the rowlings framework that I can find that creates a slower healing time for werewolves.

what it does suggest is that the curse alters the physiology of the victim, causing him or her to have increased strength, speed, etc. Werewolves as a whole have been characterized as having superior abilities in a number of areas, including healing time.

It would seem to me that it would be only consistent with Rowlings for this to be the case here as well. I am willing to consider any evidence you have that says that werewolves heal more slowly, but for right now, the majority of what I find calls for werewolves to heal, overall, faster.

[Everly Bardugo]

Bella, if Nessa sounds interesting to you, I can start up something with her getting injured sometime this weekend. Otherwise, you're welcome to any of my characters. Hadley, too, since they're both Muggles.

[Marley Harris]

Sorry, throwing my opinion in the ring here...

I do know that werewolves on the site have been played to be incredibly weakened before and after full moons. That may be where that factoid comes from.

[Everly Bardugo]

That's fair. But if it isn't during that time, the general lore is that they heal more quickly. So I think that's what we're going with for the site. At least until we can find some proof from the Rowling interviews or text evidence.

[Khaat Lupin]

you might have a point, jack.  and it would make sense for them to be weakened after the transformation.  not before.  but afterwards--for a multitude of reasons.  but hopefully discussions like this make us rp more accurately (or better).

But, Bella, the offer is certainly there for you to make a thread with Nessa. I've also got James Blood--not that he's a positive influence, lol. But there are werewolves here for her to thread with.