Wizarding children are educated about werewolves from a young age and information about them can be found in various Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry textbooks, for example The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection.


Werewolves have been mentioned several times in connection with Harry Potter's Defence Against the Dark Arts Professors, as they are dark creatures which are heavily studied throughout the class. Quirinus Quirrell had encountered them in Black Forest, and at one point discussed in class how to treat werewolf bites. Gilderoy Lockhart, supposedly, once defeated the Wagga Wagga Werewolf, something that may be discussed in his book Wandering with Werewolves. Lockhart eventually confessed to Ron and Harry that an 'ugly old Armenian warlock' had actually performed the rescue of a village from werewolves that he himself had taken credit for. Remus Lupin, of course, is a werewolf.

Werewolves were discussed in a third year Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, with an essay assigned by Severus Snape when he once substituted for Lupin, although werewolves were not due to be covered until the last chapter of the third-year DADA textbook