Wormtail's silver hand (was: Thoughts on Wormtail's activities in OOTP )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84393

Iggy McSnurd:

> > Hmmm... Silver hand on a Wizard... Silver vs. Werewolves...
> > 
> > Think Wormtail might be assigned to make an assassination attempt on
> Lupin?
> > 
> > *hrm*

Carol:
> 
> I notice that no one responded to this post, but I've been wondering
> the same thing, so I revived it. I realize that Lupin in his human
> form is apparently immune to silver (and actually strengthened by
> wolfsbane, which ought to be poisonous to a wolf if not to a
> werewolf), but the silver hand, which seems to have unusual strength
> as well as beauty, certainly seems like the ideal weapon to destroy
> Lupin in his werewolf form. In other words, I think Iggy is on to
> something. (I do think that Peter will die trying to save Harry, but
> that won't prevent him from going after Lupin first.) I'd appreciate
> your responses on this. (I'm assuming that Lupin isn't ESE.)

Still no takers? Let me ask more simply then. Does anyone think that
Wormtail is going to kill Lupin with his silver hand? Why or why not?

A related question regarding Sirius's schoolboy "prank": If Snape were
a vampire, couldn't he have fought werewolf Lupin in that form? If
we're going by folklore, nothing can kill a vampire but a stake of
holly to the heart, right? Why would he have needed to learn
occlumency or any form of defense against the dark arts if he were
virtually immortal?

Carol

P.S. If there's a vampire in this story, it ought to be Karkaroff! But
since he's a coward and fled Voldemort's revenge, he probably isn't.