Cubs
Offspring
Offspring noun - The descendants of a person, animal, or plant.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Cubs have an awareness of their parents, but adults have no hand or interest in the training and growth of their offspring.
Source: No Blood Ties - Perhaps as a callback to this, in the seventh book the same character refers to the hypothetical offspring of an heroic werewolf as "cubs", in a context that makes it clear that he's making a rather offensive joke.
- On the Pottermore site, in a recent update for Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling said that, once, a werewolf couple mated and produced offspring that were physically wolves, but of much higher intelligence; their cubs were in Hogwarts' custody and put into the Forbidden Forest.
Source: Noodle Incident / Literature
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