JKR's chills AKA Hermione the Werewolf....?

[marephraim]

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Annemehr wrote: 

> If this is one of the things that gave Jo chills, maybe she didn't
> take it literally. I mean, the movie has some internal 
inconsistencies
> here, because Hermione is obviously not a werewolf.  But to Jo it
> could have foreshadowed Hermione (or someone else for that matter, 
as
> Sirius also tried) "reaching" Lupin during a transformation. It
> needn't involve Hermione becoming a werewolf to be a foreshadowing.
> 
> Or maybe Lupin really will bite her...
> 
> Annemehr
> the hopelessly behind

While this thread seems dangerously close to OT or Movie group 
territory, I had also wondered about the werewolf connection based 
on JKR's comments about POA. However, some thoughts and 
considerations....

In POA, Hermione notes that she first knew Lupin was a werewolf when 
his Boggart was a full moon (mistaken for a crystal ball or 
something by the others). [I think the movie faulted here in making 
the Boggart too obviously a full moon for the viewers, with clouds!]

Through GOF there were numerous side comments from JKR that Hermione 
had rather protuberant teeth. [This is weak, I know; but hey, it's 
speculation!]

The assumption is being made that a werewolf changes from the time 
of being infected. Does Lupin ever clarify this issue? In what year 
of attendence did the transformations start? I don't have the books 
before me so I'll concede that perhaps they began even in his first 
year (A werewolf cub? "Oh Daddy! He's so cute! Can we get one?" "No, 
dear, you know they're cute now, but when they grow up they are a 
terror! And I'm certainly not going to walk it!") Note that the 
planting of the Whomping Willow does not necessitate that Lupin's 
transformations had already started, only that Dumbledore knew a 
device would be needed to prevent others from access to the tunnel 
at some point.

Maybe, Hermione wasn't bitten by a werewolf. If there is a 
foreshadowed element in the movie POA relating to future books that 
relates to Hermione's werewolf connection, maybe it has a different 
origin. 

May be she was licked by a werewolf. :-p

MarEphraim