Bill's injury (Re: The Problems with the DH movie)

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Richard Shepard" <shepardrj@> wrote:
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> > We all know that Greyback will attack anyone, but his 
> > preferred victims are children. 
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> zanooda:
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> Greyback attacks children because he wants to turn them into werewolves at the young age. Among adults, IMO, he prefers girls (meaning young women :-)). I take it he likes soft skin, which both children and women have. I suppose it's not much pleasure for him to bite some stubbly cheek, LOL.
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Carol responds:

On the other hand, as I said in a post that appears to have gotten lost, he killed the Montgomery sisters' five-year-old brother. Of course, that might have been done to punish the family for some "crime" against Voldemort.

I agree that the scene where he hopes to snack on Hermione gives the impression that he prefers girls (soft flesh, etc.). It makes him seem horribly lascivious, a kind of sexual predator. But he had no objection to having Dumbledore for "afters" (and probably would have done so had Snape's AK not sent DD over the battlements). As for why he chose Bill when someone like Ginny was available, maybe the Felix Felicis protected Ginny (or she hadn't arrived yet? I can't remember). Or maybe, he was jealous of the pretty boy and wanted to ruin his looks. It's hard to fathom the mind of a psychotic werewolf who, in any case, does what JKR wants him to do.

Carol, who agrees that Greyback prefers what he calls "delicious" prey, perhaps with the helplessness of children as an added attraction, but thinks his motivation may be slightly more complicated than that