Peter's hand, Wormtail's paw

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 142169

Carol wrote:
> What about true silver? Wormtail's silver hand appears to be
> permanent (and very strong, given the twig that he crushes to
> powder when he first receives it). And yet it seems to be conjured > out
of thin air. And if it's true silver, might it be lethal to a
> werewolf? (I'm thinking of Fenrir Greyback, if he's at large or
> escapes from Azkaban, not Remus Lupin.)


Kemper responded:
> And has Wormtail's Silver hand locked him to his human form? Or
> can he make the change to rat?
> If rat, then does the silver hand change to paw or silver paw? Or > is he
some freak rat with a silver, human-esque hand?

SSSusan added:
Haha! Great questions. I somehow envision Scabbers with a silver
paw... as if the silver hand is somehow also capable of the same type of
magic its owner can accomplish, in this case transfiguration. But I've got
NO canon to support that, of course.

Kemper now:
I thought more of this. I don't think Peter can transfigure to a rat
anymore. It seems as though he would have been in rat form behind the
door/wall in Spinner's End. But IIRC, he was human. Do human's have better
hearing or rat's? Any zoologists out there? If rats have better hearing then
I say he can't transform. If humans have better hearing, then there's not
enough canon support for Peter's ability to still transform to his animagus
or not.

Kemper, who hasn't given Wormtail much thought... until lately.


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