The way you are arguing is making us go in circle. So I will try to ignore what you just posted and demonstrate a possibility among possibilities, the one that I used in my last post:
Spoiler for A possible scenario:
All wolves in OtK are possible of growing into wolf-god, but most of them fail and die of old age. Some after being struck by old age do not die, but persistently live on and then gradually acquire the immortality, and acquire the possibility of continue growing, and gradually becoming bigger and bigger into a giant wolf. Their brain can also grow, thus enable them to eventually understand language. At some point, they will finally acquire the ridiculous (as you phrase it) ability to transform.
Their outer physical trait (at least) are of a wolf, their sensory abilities are of a wolf. They can communicate with wolves, they WERE born as a wolf, from their mommy wolf. They think of and group themselves with normal wolves. They perhaps have memory of when they were a normal wolf, but simply forget it because of time. Any normal wolf can become like them, if they are obstinate with living enough and triumph old age.
Therefore it may be false to say that Horo is a totally different separate being to normal wolves.
Now, the argument "god-wolf is not wolf" can only has some merit if: 1: Horo cannot give birth, or give birth to a god-wolf (which will grow up to be as big as Horo in a mere decade) or a human, after mating with a normal wolf; AND 2: Horo can give birth to a normal child or a god-wolf after mating with a human or a god wolf.
If you want to point to discontinuity, it has to be not from a normal wolf grow up to be a god-wolf, but from a god-wolf to become a human Horo. Perhaps if Spiderman lost his memory yet gaining 100 IQ when he's bit by the spider, you would say he were dead that moment, and the superhero that look like him were a completely different entity (though the change in outer appearance is not as ridiculous, the change in mind and physical abilities are equally ridiculous yet within a much shorter time)
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when Lawrence talks about wolves he has not in mind god-wolves...If wolf turning into wolf-god would be normal then there is no way Horo transformation would be so shocking to him (and to others) because living this long nearside with humans such things would have been revealed.
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How do you expect Lawrence to have god-wolf in mind when he speaks of normal wolf? He was, like majority, completely ignorant of god-wolf in the first place. God-wolves are out there, drinking in their bars and they don't know it, how can they know How can they know how god-wolves comes to be, from the normal wolves that they attack everytime they see?
Do you notice how many time have you committed false dilemma?