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

[anakinbester]

No: HPFGUIDX 46374

"Catlady wrote:
> 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.

I actually agree with this some what. 
However, Personally, I'd be surprised if she discarded the idea that 
silver is dangerous to werewolves. This seems such a large part of 
their myth. But you're right, it wasn't mentioned in Fantastic 
Beasts, when it did mention such things as a rooster being fatal to a 
Basilsk (I say that, but now I'm no longer sure . . .  it did didn't 
it?)

Then again, that book was hardly extensive. So just because it 
doens't say something, I'm not going to discount it as a possibility. 

Anyway, why I agree with you though, is that I don't think Peter will 
do it. I just don't think Peter could kill Remus face to face. (in my 
fluffy bunny world view, at least) I do, however, think that will 
come up, and Peter will be faced with that choice. Then he won't kill 
Remus, we'll all be relieved, and Remus will die later. Kinda like 
Spock getting that fake death in Wrath of Kahn to throw everyone off. 

I'm sure I'm totally off though. *L* I'm breaking my general rule 
about trying not to predict things.

It would make more since for Peter to have a show down with Sirius, 
but then if Peter had the sense god gave gravel, he should just run 
and hide from Sirius!

> 
> 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 find that the most likely theory. I'm not sure if JKR said he was 
lying or not, but I tend to think he wasn't. Simply because most 
people didn't seem to realize he was a fraud. However, if Lockhart is 
blatently making up spells in his books, someone would have figured 
him out as a fraud much earlier. Plus, if he calimed to have come up 
with such a spell, I'm sure other wizards would want to see it and 
learn it, since it would be extremely effective. Again, he'd be 
caught in a lie. 

So I think there is such a spell, however, it does no long term good 
for the werewolf. I'm sure it's also extremely complex, or Lockhart 
wouldn't brag about it. 

-Ani 
Look, I talked about something other than Peter for half a post ^^