Crying wolf?

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 81914

Melody quoted JKR:
> > 
> > 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..."

and Pippin cited her:

> 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.

and what a strange slander it is.  If Riddle meant it seriously, he 
expects us to believe that Hagrid, at age 13, kept children under 
his bed.  5% of the time, they would be cute puppies, but, for the 
rest, they would be babies, or even children as old as Hagrid 
himself.  In a Hogwarts dorm that would be a matter for comment, to 
say the least.  The slashfic alone would require a new extension to 
Madam Pince's domain.

Perhaps Riddle deliberately put forward something palpably absurd as 
an indication of how stupid he thought Hagrid.

David