Silver hand / Homorphus/ who dies? / prefects / Hogwarts tuition?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 46370

Lots of people have written that they think Pettigrew's silver 
hand will kill Lupin. JKR has not revealed anything about whether 
Potterverse werewolves are damaged by silver -- it is not at all 
mentioned in FABULOUS BEASTS. I expect she will kill Lupin (and I will 
cry, as he is my favorite character and very much deserves to have 
SOME happiness in his life!) but I doubt it will be the silver hand.

Sian/Freiol asked:

<< so how come [the Homorphus] charm has never been performed on 
Lupin? It would make his life a whole lot easier if he would stay 
human all the time. >>

Steve bboy_mn stated my own current belief, that Homorphus only turns 
a werewolf back into human form for a moment, long enough to identify 
the person -- I fear that the villagers used this information to kill 
the guy when he was human and relatively defenseless, say at New Moon, 
rather than to be make sure he was locked into a cage every month 
before Full Moon rose.

However, it seems no one has yet mentioned my previous theory, that 
Homorphus is permanent has dreadful side effects, similar to Real 
Life physical brain damage, so the person could lose their 
intelligence, their memory, even the ability to breathe without 
gadgets.

Lizbot said:

<< I asked this question on here myself, about six months ago. S
everal people told me that JKR said, in an interview when asked 
about this, that Lockhart was just lying. >>

I don't recall ever having read before that JKR was asked about 
Homorphus, and The Goat Pad turned up no matches for "Homorphus". 
Are you sure you aren't thinking of:

blaise_42 asks: In Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid is supposed to have 
raised werewolf cubs under his bed. Are these the same kind of 
werewolves as Professor Lupin? 
jkrowling_bn: no... Riddle was telling lies about Hagrid, just 
slandering him

http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/chat/jkrowlingchat.html 

Dan Delaney Dionysus wrote:

<< How would Hermione's death be the "end of an era"? >>

It would definitely be the end of an era for Harry, and for the fans: 
the end of the era of The Trio, The Three Friends.

Darla wrote:

<< But a lot of people talk about prefects as if only one boy/girl 
can be a prefect from each house. help? >>

The text gives the impression that Hogwarts chooses one boy and one 
girl prefect from each House for fifth year, sixth year, and seventh 
year (the Head Boy and the Head Girl are two of the seventh year 
prefects). That makes it strange that Mrs Weasley said: "I notice
they haven't made you two prefects." At most ONE of the two could 
have been made prefect, unless Hogwarts rules make an exception for 
twins.

Carol Bainbridge wrote:

<< do we know what, if anything, Hogwarts costs? What the tuition is? 
>>

I feel sure that Hogwarts doesn't charge any tuition (that would be 
another reason why Hermione's parents were pleased to send her there) 
and doesn't charge for room & board. After all, they have had 1000 
years to grow their endowment.