Remus J. Lupin (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} slowburn_alpha) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} hogwarts_dawn, |
Broken as a werewolf. Broken as a person. The two go hand-in-hand, Harry. If he's newly turned, he's not only experiencing a lot of rejection from people around him, but the body he's known for his entire life is changing in ways it wasn't built for, the sensory overload alone is enough to drive some people mad. Being able to explain what's happening to him could go a long way to helping him feel more in control of his life.
I don't know what's changed since our time. Savannah mentioned reforms. But, he and I come from the same time. Society believed we were better off dead. My earliest memory is of the healers telling my parents there was a chance I wouldn't make it and it would be kinder for them to just let me die. There was no support system for our kind we didn't build ourselves. You got bitten, you got medical care, a lecture on locking yourself up at the Full, and instructions to register with the Ministry. The Registry was a joke, used more to point fingers when someone died or a scapegoat was needed than to help the people on it. We had to learn about the changes that happened between Full Moons by just...going through it.
We are both wolf and man, to keep him from breaking, you have to treat both.