[HPFGU-OTChatter] Peter's hand, Wormtail's paw

[kemper mentor]

Carol wrote:
> 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 responded:
> 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 added:
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 now:
I thought more of this.  I don't think Peter can transfigure to a rat anymore.  It seems as though he would have been in rat form behind the door/wall in Spinner's End.  But IIRC, he was human.  Do human's have better hearing or rat's?  Any zoologists out there?  If rats have better hearing then I say he can't transform.  If humans have better hearing, then there's not enough canon support for Peter's ability to still transform to his animagus or not.
 
Kemper, who hasn't given Wormtail much thought... until lately.

 

		
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