[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Pettigrew's hand?

[Cait Hunter]

No: HPFGUIDX 28764

In celtic mythology, there was a king of the Tuatha de Danaan who lost his 
hand in battle and the kingship because of it. I believe his name was Nuada. 
All of my mythology books are in a box in the garage and I don't wanna go 
dig thru them, though, so take that with a grain of salt. He later regained 
the kingship after Lugh (patron of crafters and artisans) created a hand of 
silver for him.


Cait

It's a redhead thing...



>From: maidne at yahoo.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Why Pettigrew's hand?
>Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 20:56:53 -0000
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at h...> wrote:
> > Then again, maybe the spell doesn't require a particular minimum
> > amount of flesh, but Wormtail chose to donate a significant
>amount.
> > Perhaps this was done on Voldemort's promise that Wormtail would
>get
> > something really great in exchange for his hand.  So I'm idly
>hoping
> > that Wormtail's hand will be a really big deal and very magical in
> > later books (but not nearly magical enough to kill Lupin, of
> > course).  That would be the least Voldemort could do.
> >
> > Cindy
>
>I doubt that Wormtail chose to donate his whole hand, coward that he
>is.  But apparently Voldemort did promise to replace it, and isn't
>there some kind of mythology about a silver hand?  I can't remember
>the detais, just someone having his hand cut off (involuntarily), and
>then later obtaining a silver hand as a replacement.  IIRC, the
>silver hand had some kind of special powers.
>
>On a slightly different note, since Voldy can now touch Harry without
>pain, do you think that the pain in Harry's scar will diminish now?
>
>Susan
>


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