Crying wolf?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 81885

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Melody" 
<Malady579 at h...> wrote:
> Kneasy: 
> >>In CoS Tom Riddle sneers at Hagrid for trying to raise them 
under
> >>his  bed. Odd that.
> 
> Fawkes: 
> >I would like to see the canon where they say hagrid raises 
werewolf
> >cubs under his bed......
> 
> 
> Me:
> 
> CoS, Ch 17, Pg 311 (American Hb)
> 
> "...on the other hand, big, blundering Hagrid, in trouble every 
other
> week, trying to raise werewolf cubs under his bed..."
> 
> 
> So it is there, but it is from the words of Riddle.  Granted, he is
> probably telling the truth since this was used against Hagrid to 
prove
> he was the person in charge of the death of Myrtle.  We know 
he was
> indicted, so the cards were stacked against him.  It take more 
than a
> pointing finger to get someone kicked out of Hogwarts and the
> WW...er...so far.  It takes a good framer and a bit of dirt on the
> hands of the accused to be exploited by the framer.

Er, actually, we have JKR's word that this is slander, 

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2000/100
0-livechat-barnesnoble.html

backed up  by Fantastic Beasts which also states that the only 
way for someone to become a werewolf is by being bitten.


Pippin 
not trusting Lupin since post 39362