From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 236 The Beginning of the Werewolf Equality Movement

Lupin is a werewolf.

This fact spread throughout Hogwarts in a very short time.

When Professor McGonagall saw Lupin with the big bad wolf's head in the corridor, she covered her chest with her hands, looking like she couldn't breathe: "Remus!... What are you doing!"

Lupin spread his two large paws and turned around in a circle, showing his new appearance to Professor McGonagall and other students in the corridor. When his gray tail, which was exposed from under his robes, swept across the students' insteps, many people screamed in a way that was hard to tell whether it was fear or surprise.

"He's so furry!" two Gryffindor girls whispered to each other, "Reminds me of my teddy bear at home!"

Lupin ignored the various voices coming from his ears and said seriously to Professor McGonagall: "Anyway, Minerva, this is my truth. I am a genuine werewolf, but after Mr. Doom's treatment, the lycanthropy curse is no longer transmitted through my blood and saliva."

Professor McGonagall still had that breathless expression: "You don't have to be like this... Remus... You don't have to be like this..."

Lupin suddenly raised his voice and said to all the people in the corridor who came to watch the fun: "Lycosis is no longer a curse for me! It is a talent, just like some wizards are born with Metamorphmagus! This power will be passed down in my blood, just like Salazar Slytherin's descendants are all Parseltongues! My descendants will also be werewolves who can control their transformation like me!"

"I'm Remus John Lupin, the son of Lyall Lupin!" Lupin announced to everyone. His wolf head was high up in the air, out of reach of others, and his two pointed ears stood up alertly. "My father once made many discriminatory remarks about werewolves, so Fenrir Greyback, the infamous werewolf, attacked me when I was four years old and made me a werewolf as revenge on my father."

"On every full moon night after that, I would stay alone in the basement, with a whole room of pillows and feathers. My parents thought I had no chance to go to Hogwarts, but Professor Dumbledore gave me this opportunity! He planted a Whomping Willow on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and I would go to the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade through the secret passage under it before transforming. This is why the villagers of Hogsmeade heard the screams and noises. Professor Dumbledore was the first person who did not discriminate against werewolves. He knew that as long as it was not a full moon night, werewolves were very safe!"

"But the entire magical society still discriminates against werewolves! In the more than ten years since I graduated from Hogwarts, I have never found a job with enough salary, until I returned to this school and became a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts! The treatment Mr. Doom used on me can be replicated on other patients with lycanthropy! This means that the wizarding world will no longer be troubled by the lycanthropy curse! Werewolves will grow in number through normal reproduction, just like wizards!"

"But I know very well that if no one stands up to resist, even if lycanthropy is no longer transmitted through werewolves, discrimination in the magic world will not stop! The prejudice in people's hearts is as huge as a mountain! I don't want my children to suffer the same plight as me! So I must stand up and resist! I want to speak out for all werewolves! I want to eliminate people's prejudices and put an end to discrimination against werewolves in the magic world! Werewolves will be an equal group among wizards! Starting today! Starting now! Starting from Hogwarts!"

Lupin's impassioned impromptu speech ended. His height of over two meters allowed him to clearly see the expressions of every student in the corridor - a mixture of shock and doubt.

Suddenly, someone started clapping. Lupin turned around and saw that it was Harry.

The applause started with him, and gradually others joined in, until no other sound could be heard in the entire corridor.

Lupin gave a huge, ferocious grin, and the applause in the corridor gradually died down.

He looked down and saw Professor McGonagall wiping her tears. His throat heaved for a while before he spoke: "I'm sorry, Minerva, I disappoint you again. I once lived with my compatriots for a period of time, and I know very well what kind of hell that is. I couldn't bear to watch others suffer while I was hiding in Hogwarts to teach. I know I wasn't like this before... but... I accepted the wildness of the werewolf and lived in peace with it. Maybe I have changed a little... but I am still the same Remus..."

"Oh, Remus..." Professor McGonagall came over and hugged him, "From the first day you started school at Hogwarts, I knew you were a good boy... Go and do what you should do... Don't worry about the school's Defense Against the Dark Arts. I will ask Dumbledore to post another recruitment notice."

"Thank you, Minerva. You are the best Head of Gryffindor." Lupin patted Professor McGonagall on the shoulder for the last time and walked through the crowd with his head held high.

In fact, after completing the autonomous werewolf transformation, Lupin found Ivy again the next day and asked about the possibility of popularizing the treatment method to other werewolves.

And this is exactly what Ivy wants.

Long before he started treating Lupin, Ivy had already set his sights on werewolves on the margins of the magical society. As frequent visitors to the fantasy world, werewolves and vampires have always been enduring themes. It doesn't make sense that vampires can occupy a place in the magical world, while werewolves can only become rats that everyone shouts and beats.

If he could find a way to turn the curse of lycanthropy into power, Ivy would have a very good chance of gaining a group of supporters. Therefore, when designing the final treatment plan, Ivy took into account the reusability of the magic ritual.

The moon phase instrument, the necklace of inquiry, and the rune array under the ceremony site.

As long as all three are gathered, the werewolf ritual can be successful. However, once a month, and only one person at a time, the speed is obviously too slow. Now Ivy has begun to develop magic that can meet the needs of a larger number of werewolves.

All in all, pulling the werewolves on the margins of magical society out of despair and enabling them to engage in normal production activities is the first step of Ivy's plan.

The second step of the plan is to organize a werewolf equality movement. The discrimination against werewolves in the magic community has a long history, and it will not stop suddenly just because lycanthropy is no longer spreading.

Therefore, when the werewolves, who were on the margins of the magic society, were brought back to the center of the stage, most people's reaction was of course to reject them. This was the inertia of public opinion in society. In the past, werewolves were discriminated against because the lycanthropy curse was seen as a magical disease, which was discrimination by healthy people against those infected. But when the lycanthropy curse became the power of werewolves, the logical chain of discrimination against werewolves no longer held.

The werewolves believe that they have recovered and will no longer have uncontrolled behaviors. They are normal humans who can return to normal life. But the wizarding society as a whole obviously does not think so. Discrimination caused by inertia will continue to exist for a long time in the future.

At that time, the werewolves will find that it is almost impossible to hide themselves in the crowd, and the normal life they imagined after recovery will not come. If the werewolves were a marginal group before being treated by Ivy, and after being treated by Ivy, the werewolves are still a marginal group in the magic society, then the disease is not cured in vain?

It is foreseeable that there will be widespread conflict between the werewolf community and the wizarding society, and the living conditions of the werewolves will still not improve.

And Ivy can also carry out the third step of his plan. Provide job opportunities and settlements for the werewolves. This will not be too difficult for the uncrowned king of Slytherin. Besides, Ivy already has the experience of organizing and establishing a magical animal industry base at Hogwarts. He only needs to replicate it once.

Even if the total volume of wizarding society cannot digest two large-scale magical animal industrial bases, Ivy can try to negotiate with Dumbledore and the school board to hand over the Hogwarts industrial base to the werewolves. With Dumbledore's obvious reformist way of thinking, it is obvious that he will support the werewolves in peacefully fighting for their rights.

As long as one of the two situations can be achieved, Ivy will not encounter any resistance in conquering most of the werewolves. After all, he was the lycanthropy remover and the werewolves' big money sponsor at that time. He only needed to raise his arm and call for the werewolves to obey.
As a subspecies of wizards created by Ivy, werewolves have unique advantages.

First of all, their physical abilities and nerve reflex speed in werewolf state are higher than the average of ordinary wizards.

Secondly, werewolves have more acute senses. Their sense of smell and hearing are more than twice as strong as those of normal humans, and they also have very rare low-light vision.

Finally, although most werewolves are transformed from wizards, there are also a few who were Muggles before they were infected with lycanthropy. Lupin can still cast spells in werewolf form. If Ivy's magic ritual works on all lycanthropy patients, does it mean that Muggles can also be transformed into wizards? If Muggle werewolves cannot cast spells, then what about Squibs? Can these people who have lived in the magic world since childhood and can only pretend that their spells are not very effective gain the ability to cast spells by being infected with lycanthropy and then cured? These are all new questions derived from the huge topic of werewolves, and Ivy can't wait to study them.

Of course, Lupin is the only patient who has been successfully cured of lycanthropy, so it will take time for the rumors to spread, and the very dedicated Lupin is obviously a suitable promoter.

After teaching the last Defense Against the Dark Arts class to the students of Hogwarts, Lupin resigned before the overwhelming number of Howlers arrived and went to look for people who were also trapped by the curse of lycanthropy.

A large number of them are criminals who hate wizards and wander on the fringes of society. The most famous werewolf criminal is Fenrir Greyback.

This werewolf, who had been on the run for more than 20 years after committing a crime and had never been caught by the Aurors, had considerable influence in the entire werewolf community. Lupin's trip was to replace him and allow the werewolves to escape from the hell of hatred under his leadership.

When Lupin left Hogwarts, not many people came to see him off, because only a few people knew about it, and it happened that the examiners from the Wizarding Examinations Authority arrived at Hogwarts from Hogsmeade.

"We will miss you, Professor Lupin." Standing in front of the waving Whomping Willow, Hermione went forward and hugged the professor who had only taught her for half a year.

"Remember to write to us!" Harry also walked over. After learning from Snape's memory that Lupin was a good friend of his father, he also had a lot of psychological dependence on Lupin. Now that Sirius and Lupin have left school, he is somewhat unhappy, not to mention that he learned from Dumbledore not long ago that he has to live with his uncle and aunt for at least one month every year to maintain the love magic left in him by his mother Lily.

This means that after the exam week, he can't reunite with Sirius immediately, but must endure another month. This news made Harry very depressed. Even today's breakfast, he ate a few slices of bread less.

"Good boy!" Lupin squatted down and straightened Harry's collar. "The six months I spent teaching you at Hogwarts were the happiest time of my life. I believe we will meet again soon, okay?"

Harry nodded, and Lupin stood up and looked in the direction of the main entrance of the school. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were accompanying the examiners from the Wizarding Examinations Authority coming in through the main entrance. Ivy also knew the old witch in the lead, Griselda Marchbank, who was still in charge of the assessment of Transfiguration and Charms.

"Okay, I can't stay too long. You have an exam today." Lupin took out his wand and directed a stone on the ground to hit a huge scar on the trunk of the Whomping Willow. The waving branches stopped as if the pause button was pressed.

Lupin gave them one last smile and disappeared into the secret passage beneath the tree trunk.

At this time, Ivy was sitting in the waiting room and witnessed everything through the window.

The first OWLs exam was Charms. The professor in charge of maintaining order had gathered all those waiting to take the test together. As long as they passed the inspection of the Wizarding Examinations Authority, they could sit in the examination room and wait for the exam to begin.

After the theoretical test in the morning, students will face the practical test in the afternoon. At that time, each candidate will take the test individually, which makes cheating less likely and more rigorous.

The exams will last for a full two weeks, with only one subject being tested every day, starting with the compulsory subjects, while Ivy's electives, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies and Care of Magical Creatures will be tested in the second week, along with Divination, Arithmancy and Astronomy.

(End of this chapter)