Salazar's dagger?

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 88654

sachmet96 wrote:
> I always thought the dagger was only a ceremonial dagger and never 
> used for a 'real' weapon as silver is a very soft material and just 
> not suited for weapons of any kind as it would dent as soon as it 
> hit/was hit by most other weapons/things. So it is actually quite 
> useless. Of course you can still kill people by stabbing or such 
but 
> I don't think Salazar would have such a weapon as one of a stronger 
> material would have been more useful. I can't see Salazar with such 
a 
> weapon, but of course he could have had it to show off. 
> 
> And I can't remember but is Godric's sword really made of silver, 
> wouldn't that indicate that he couldn't/didn't use it in a fight 
but only wore it to show off? 

Berit replies:

Godric's sword is indeed made of silver; it says so at the end of 
CoS. And it was obviously strong enough to kill the basilisk (and the 
dagger was strong enough to chop off the hand of Wormtail). Maybe the 
sword and the dagger aren't pure silver, but a blend of silver and 
some stronger metal, but they still have enough silver in them to be 
called silver weapons (just like most gold jewelry are not made of 
pure gold).
The silver dagger in GoF has an aura of being "seremonial", 
especially the way it is used. But that doesn't have to stop it from 
having belonged to old Salazar... I'd say it makes it more likely.

Berit
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