Well, I would, but I'm not sure she's that kind of imaginative!
You're probably right about Rowling, as much as I like the idea of her being sneaky that way.
Dude: if you've got werewolves, I don't see why not unicorns.
True, but it would be hard to hide unicorns in something roughly equivalent to New York state. Unless, I suppose, they were human-to-unicorn shapeshifters,* but that's getting into some really disturbing territory. Introduce those and, before you know it, you'll have Otherkin and people who sell Amway products and naturist Smurfs who are members of obscure sects derived from Scientology.
Werewolves are able to be physicists and farmers and archaeologists for most of the month, so it's easier for them to avoid detection--in that particular 'verse, they eat a big meal before moonrise so they'll not be tempted to take livestock, and spend most of their time in wolf form running about and singing in parts.
*Wereunicorns sounds so very wrong that I can't even use it as a joke.
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You're probably right about Rowling, as much as I like the idea of her being sneaky that way.
Dude: if you've got werewolves, I don't see why not unicorns.
True, but it would be hard to hide unicorns in something roughly equivalent to New York state. Unless, I suppose, they were human-to-unicorn shapeshifters,* but that's getting into some really disturbing territory. Introduce those and, before you know it, you'll have Otherkin and people who sell Amway products and naturist Smurfs who are members of obscure sects derived from Scientology.
Werewolves are able to be physicists and farmers and archaeologists for most of the month, so it's easier for them to avoid detection--in that particular 'verse, they eat a big meal before moonrise so they'll not be tempted to take livestock, and spend most of their time in wolf form running about and singing in parts.
*Wereunicorns sounds so very wrong that I can't even use it as a joke.