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Carol responded:
> What about true silver? Wormtail's silver hand appears to be
> permanent (and very strong, given the twig that he crushes to 
> powder when he first receives it). And yet it seems to be conjured 
> out of thin air. And if it's true silver, might it be lethal to a 
> werewolf? (I'm thinking of Fenrir Greyback, if he's at large or 
> escapes from Azkaban, not Remus Lupin.)
 

Kemper now:
> And has Wormtail's Silver hand locked him to his human form?  Or 
> can he make the change to rat?  
> If rat, then does the silver hand change to paw or silver paw?  Or 
> is he some freak rat with a silver, human-esque hand?

SSSusan:
Haha!  Great questions.  I somehow envision Scabbers with a silver 
paw... as if the silver hand is somehow also capable of the same type 
of magic its owner can accomplish, in this case transfiguration.  But 
I've got NO canon to support that, of course.


Kemper:  
> Carol, are you suggesting Wormtail's (I hesitate to use the word) 
> redemption is saving Harry from Greyback?  Or that Greyback attacks 
> Wormtail in some full-moon lunacy, and Wormtail, frightened and 
> wandless, flails his fists about accidentally maiming/killing 
> Greyback even though Greyback does land a killing claw on 
> Wormtail's treacherous jugular?  Because if you're suggesting this 
> last one, I like it a lot.  

SSSusan:
Hee.  I like this a lot, too.  (Hasn't JKR addressed on her website, 
though, the issue of silver?  In terms of the silver goblet at 12GP 
and Lupin's ability to touch it?)  OTOH I admit that I just DON'T 
like Wormtail.  I understand, frankly, that part of that is bias from 
having seen the movies.  I mean, Timothy Spall's Peter Pettigrew just 
turned my stomach (blech).  I *have* listened to fans who've defended 
PP and have tried to be open to their views... but I just can't get 
past my negative reaction to what I see as cowardice, not 
just "humanness."  Yes, Lupin has shown some cowardice, as well, and 
I still love his character... but Pettigrew's choices, while perhaps 
understandable to some degree, have just seemed to me to be of a 
greater magnitude, with greater (that is, worse) consequences.

I'm rambling, though....

My point is that the possibility of PP's redemption and the 
possibility PP's repaying his life debt to Harry are quite popular in 
the HP fandom; a lot of people seem to really want to see this 
happen.  For some reason I've been less excited about the prospect -- 
probably because I just don't like the character much, but maybe also 
because I wouldn't want to see this happen unless it's something 
*genuine.*  That is, I wouldn't want it to be an accidental repayment 
of the debt -- PP just doing something which happens to save Harry's 
life.  I'd want it to be something PP considered and elected to do.

In the graveyard scene of GoF, we saw Wormtail suggesting to Voldy 
that they use someone *else's* blood -- that it didn't have to be 
Harry's -- and I saw that as the one glimmer of hope that PP would 
like to get out of the mess he's in.  In that situation, he chose to 
not press the point, and I suppose most of us would probably have 
done likewise.  But if PP's going to be redeemed, I'd like it to be 
REAL, in a situation where he's contemplated what to do, has weighed 
the consequences of doing or not doing it, and this time DOES defy 
Voldy.

Now, how likely is that, though??

Siriusly Snapey Susan