JKR's website update - Silver Hand

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 145481

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at s...> wrote:
>
> spotsgal wrote:
> > In response to you both, it's been pretty obvious for a while
> > that werewolves in JKR's universe do not respond poorly to pure 
> > silver (in their human form, at least).  
> 
> Bart:
> Don't make the mistake of mistaking a lack of invulnerability with
> a vulnerability. It's not that silver will hurt a werewolf MORE
> than it would hurt a normal human, it's that it will hurt a 
> werewolf AS MUCH as it would hurt a normal human. Unless you see 
> normal humans dropping dead from drinking from silver chalices, a 
> werewolf probably would not, either.
> 
> Bart
>

bboyminn:

Let me expand on what Bart said, and see if I can make his point in a
stronger more obvious way.

Killing Werewolves with silver doesn't involve getting the Wolf to
drink from a silver Chalice, it involves piercing the Heart or the
Head with an object of pure Silver. 

Bart's point is that if you pierce the head of a common muggle with a
pure Silver projectile, they will most likely die. However, a common
muggle will not die from drinking from a silver goblet, and logically
neither will a werewolf.

However, if we change Silver to lead, then according to some legends,
if pierced throught the head or heart, the muggle will die, but the
werewolf won't. The key is that a werewolf MUST be !!KILLED!! by
something made of Silver, not that random common contact with Silver
will kill them.

So, contact by a werewolf and Silver is irrelavant unless that contact
involves a means or method that would otherwise kill a person; Silver
bullets, silver spears, silver tipped arrows, silver swords, silver
knives, silver stakes though the heart, etc..., but NOT drinking from
a Silver cup or eating from a Silver plate.

Is that the point you were trying to make Bart?

Steve/bboyminn