Darwin wrote in Zoology: Aristotle called "man" an imitative animal. This tendency to imitate was not only evident in children's behavior, but also in all the customs and fashions of the world.
Teachers regarded such imitation as a driving force for learning. For instance, Remus Lupin put a Boggart in a wardrobe and had the children repeat spells after him in Defense Against the Dark Arts, while Pomona demonstrated first when repotting Mandrakes.
Werewolf communities had their own methods of education. They demonstrated to new members how to attack humans. For "wolves" who had spent the previous ten-odd years identifying as human, only to become another species after being bitten once, it was a painful and absurd thing.
Remus chose not to eat human flesh or harm anyone, even though doing so left him terribly weak.
While traveling all over Britain in search of work, he also researched what exactly played a crucial role in his transformations. Then, in a Birmingham library, he found some information.
The Lunar Society initially had only five core members. They included Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Robert Darwin, who would later write the theory of evolution. He was a doctor, poet, and inventor, and so fat that he had to cut a semicircle into his table to accommodate his belly. Next was Matthew Boulton, owner of the Soho Company, who was then still a flamboyant factory manager. Then came Boulton's anxious partner, James Watt, as well as Josiah Wedgwood, an ambitious potter. Finally, there was Joseph Priestley, a stammering but eloquent pastor and chemist, the first person to isolate oxygen.
At first, they were merely a group of like-minded friends. Electrical demonstrations already existed then, but people generally believed them to be tricks or magic. Whenever someone put one on, the streets would empty.