User blog comment:El Alamein/Farkas vs. Fenrir Greyback/@comment-5795750-20160317045430/@comment-4661256-20160321013014

Normally your rebuttal is enough to counter BG's vote but I'm afraid I simply don't agree with you Cfp.

With regards to the whole combat experience thing, the Battle of Hogwarts was a pretty huge fight and the Order of the Phoenix is comprised of very powerful wizards including Ministry of Magic officials, Hogwarts professors, and the like. Since there's no wizarding equivalent of a military such prestigious positions as government or education positions are a fair substitute to indicate power and magical prestige.

Also, Cfp, you are basing your depiction of Greyback off of the films, which is stupid because 1) Greyback can't fly, he Apparates, which is basically magically-induced teleportation (the films just choose to depict it as a type of flying because it makes more sense in a visual medium). It's a pretty unfair generalization to say that several students "easily" beat him. First of all it took several students to defeat one guy in combat, so there's that, but regardless when you have magical spells flying left and right anybody can take anybody down with the right spell. Also, Greyback still was pretty resilient considering he took three simultaneous stunning spells and recovered fairly quickly (remember that usually one stunning spell is enough to incapacitate someone entirely, and Greyback took three and was only briefly impeded).

Also, you claim that Greyback doesn't use magic but that's just plain B.S. According to the Harry Potter Wiki, under Greyback's skills duelling is specifically listed, as is his proficiency in disarming and blocking attacks. It is noted that Harry Potter failed to defeat him and it took Ron and Neville combined (again, this should be a plus, not a minus) to take him down. In fact, Greyback is able to cast spells nonverbally (as is stated on the Wiki). Greyback is also quite intelligent as he was able to fool "an entire courtroom of experienced magical law enforcement officers."

Yes, he does revel in his animalistic nature but don't mistake this for an incompetence with magic. It just means that he prefers to deliver a coup de grace up-close. That doesn't mean he won't sic a Crucio on Farkas first.