[HPforGrownups] Re: "Old and Valuable" Whomping Willow - But Why?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 109742

On 11 Aug 2004 at 17:18, Vincent Maston wrote:

> I also think that Dumbledore would have made all he could to make people 
> believe it was really old, so they wouldn't think of it as a tree with a 
> purpose, at the time. Much like the rumours he spread about the 
> shrieking shack, I believe.

I just wonder why the Whomping Willow can't be old - while we know 
it was planted at Hogwarts in Lupin's time, it could have been a 
transplant surely - perhaps it grew somewhere else for 500 years. 
Honestly, I'm not sure I'd rely on a brand new sapling to guard a 
werewolf (-8




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