JKR's website update - Silver Hand

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 145495

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "captainconk"
<monica.schuster at m...> wrote:
>
> > Steve/bboyminn:
> > So, contact by a werewolf and Silver is irrelavant unless that 
> > contact involves a means or method that would otherwise kill a 
> > person; ...
> > 
> > Is that the point you were trying to make Bart?
> 
> 
> Captainconk now:
> 
> I think we are missing the bigger point here.
> 
> She stated that Peter's silver hand will not be used to kill 
> Lupin.
> 
> What about Greyback? Peter owes Harry a life debt, I bet a silver 
> hand puncturing his chest and maybe squeezing the heart would 
> help fulfill that debt, or something along that line. ...
> 
> I think it's another red herring to make us think that the silver 
> hand will not be used against a werewolf. It's been emphasized 
> too much for me to think that it will not come into play in some 
> way, and I hope it's to hurt Greyback, allot. 
> 
> 
> Just a thought.
>


bboyminn:

Thinks we need to establish, or at least consider-

-Is Peter's silver-colored hand actually made out of the metal Silver?

-Are werewolves in JKR's world protected from all forms of death OTHER
THAN death by lethal penetration by a pure Silver object?

-Do werewolves have the same protection from Death mentioned above in
Human form as we suppose they might in Werewolf form? 

I don't think we can really answer the question at hand (no pun)
without this information.

It is entirely possible that Peter/Wormtail will kill Greyback in aid
of Harry's defense. But that doesn't necessarily have anything to do
with the material his magic hand is made out of. The magic hand
appears to be far more powerful than a normal hand, so it is more than
capable of kill by a variety of means. That alone is enough to
speculate that Peter will use it to help Harry. 

The question of the moment is, is the hands silver color and
composition of any significants? Is it particularly significant with
respect to being especially dangerous to werewolves?

Personally, since I don't believe that the magic hand is literally
Silver, I don't believe its relationship to werewolves is significant.
What is significant is that Peter owes his life to Harry, and there
may come a point where Peter and some other DE's realize that life
under Voldemort isn't going to be as grand and glorious as they have
previously speculated. I think they will see him as the oppressive
tyrant that he is, and always will be, and turn against him.

That is Peter's nature, to lay is bets and his allegiance with the
biggest bully on the block, or at least with the apparant winner.

Just a few rambling thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn