The Hand of Glory

[ladyramkin2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 115335


Trawling through The Leaky Cauldron's fascinating site "Everything 
there is to know about HP & theHalf Blood Prince (unless you're JKR..)
I was surprised to read this quote from the Scholastic Chat of 
October 2000:
"Occasionally I will use something that people used to believe was 
true - for example, the Hand of Glory which Draco gets from Borgin & 
Burkes in The Chamber of Secrets."

But Draco DIDN'T get the Hand,  Lucius is none too pleased when 
Borgin described it as "Best friend of thieves and plunderers!"

"I hope my son will amount to more than a thief or a plunderer, 
Borgin" said Mr. Malfoy coldly and Mr. Borgin said quickly, "No 
offence, sir, no offence meant -"

Lucius then goes on to trash Draco for falling behind Hermione and 
proceeds to haggle with Borgin about his list of items he has for 
sale. Nothing more is said about the Hand of Glory.  Draco, however, 
drifts off to examine the objects for sale.  Is it possible that he 
managed to pocket the Hand of Glory while his father was busy with 
Mr. Borgin? But wouldn't Harry have seen him.  Perhaps not, if 
Draco's back was to him.  
It might, of course, just be a slip of the tongue on JKR's part, but 
I feel sure the Hand of Glory is going to re-appear in either Book 6 
or Book 7.

Sylvia (apologising if this has been thoroughly worked over before)