Thank you for writing! Your letter comes at a particularly fortuitous time in the scope of my research and I am quite pleased to have another opportunity of collecting information if you are willing to share it.

Let me pause here to mention that your participation in this research is completely voluntary. If at any point one of my questions makes you uncomfortable, you may choose not to answer it without affecting the compensation scheme laid out on the enclosed page. Your safety and privacy are my top concern, and at no point will I ask or pressure you to identify yourself. None of the information you share with me will ever be published in a manor that connects it back to you. That being said, if you so elect you may choose to specify that any particular details you share with me are not available for publishing even in an anonymous format.

With that out of the way, these are the questions with which I usually begin. Feel free to answer with as much or little detail as you find necessary:

1) To the best of your recollection, what were the circumstances under which you first became afflicted?

2) What was your initial reaction to this situation? Did you know immediately after being bitten that you were affected, did you discover it at sometime in the following weeks, or during the next full moon?

3) What was your first full moon experience like? How has the experience changed with time?

4) How long have you been living with lycanthropy?

5) As you mentioned that you were not registered with the Ministry of Magic, what specific factors lead to your decision not to register yourself?

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