I don't recall any shifted werewolves appering at all in books 5 or 6. There are werewolves involved in the story (besides just Lupin), but none of them shift in the books. Maybe in #7...Renorei wrote:I'll agree with Vuldari that the HP werewolf was indeed a werewolf...
...but it was a TERRIBLE werewolf. I hope that one of the future HP movies has a shifted werewolf that is not as sickly and ugly as Lupin. No werewolf should look like that. He was the Stephen Hawking of werewolves (minus the expert knowledge on physics).
The way I see it, it's like looking at a strange car. It's new "modern" design looks terribly awful to you and you HATE everything about it, from the way you sit at the very front of the vehicle with no engine or hood in front of you (its underneath, on the bottom), to the shiny silver plasticy interior with all digital dials and the awful orange and purple color sheme.
...but regardless of how much you may hate it, the fact remains that it is a four wheeled vehicle with seating for 5, designed with the purpose of transporting individuals and their families and luggage to their desired destinations, fuels up at regular gas stations, and meets all of the legal requirements of a street legal automobile, and is sold as such.
Regardless of how much of an aesthetic abomination you may feel this thing is, there is really no point in denying outright that it IS in fact a "Car".
...on the other hand, if someone made an inclosed two-wheeled vehicle with wings with no storage space, which only met ONE of the requirements of a "Car" (that it carries a passenger), and the maker tried to pass it off as such, naming it the "Sky Car" would not, a Car, make it.
Likewise...a creature that is a man that transforms into a monster, but does not seem to have anything to do with wolves at all, or looks like a Gestalt werewolf, or an Anthro-Wolf but never transformes into a human ever, or a person who Thinks like a wolf, but never takes the physical form of one...regardless of what someone may choose to call them, is NOT a "Werewolf".