Silver or Silvery? (WAS: How Long Will Wormtail's New Hand Last?)

[tmarends]

No: HPFGUIDX 42820

Grey Wolf wrote:
> 
> At any rate, there is no canon that the werwolves in Potterverse 
are 
> affected by silver. Although it's a general sort of affliction for 
> werewolves, the weak points of those sort of creatures changes 
widely 
> from book to book. For example, most of the werewoves I've read 
about 
> are *not* affected by wolvesbane (a plant), but traditionally it's 
> either death for a werewolf, or what changes you into one to begin 
> with.
> 
> To give weight to the "silver doesn't harm werewolves in 
Potterverse" 
> theory, just point out that sickles are made of silver, and I don't 
> think that Lupin is incapable of accepting change when buying 
something 
> (although that would explain why he's so poor: everything he buys 
has 
> to be rounded up to the next galleon, unless he happens to carry 
enough 
> knuts).
> 
> Grey Wolf

It has always been my understanding that silver only affected the 
warewolf, not the man.  In other words, by the light of a full moon, 
when he is in his "wolf" form could silver be used against a 
warewolf.  It's like inviting a vampire into your home.  Once you do 
that nothing that harms a vampire (except sunlight) works.  Not 
garlic, or Holy water, or anything.  JKR may have a different take on 
both creatures.  We'll have to wait and see.  But there has to be a 
reason Pettigrew was given a "silver" hand.

Tim A.