Lily/ChapDisc/Zach/TheDetentionCards/Werewolf/Spider/GoF Stomp / Snape :)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 150403


> Pippin wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/150213 :
> 
> << JKR tells us that a clever wizard might be able to transfigure
> veritaserum  into something else. Presumably that could be done with
> wolfsbane too, if the werewolf wanted an excuse to attack. >>

Catlady: 
> You don't think that wizarding law provides capital punishment or
> lifetime in Azkaban for a werewolf who attacked a human and got caught?

Pippin:
The failure of the potion could be blamed on Snape. 

> Pippin wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/150337 :
> 
> << Indeed in HBP we learned that their roots of the tragedy overtaking
> the wizarding world go back centuries, far beyond Voldemort. >>

Catlady: 
> Do you mean the Gaunts being bred for looniness?
>

Pippin:
Arrogance and instability seem to have been bred into the Gaunts, but
also the Blacks and the Crouches, to the point where everyone thinks
it's normal  By comparison the Malfoys, though Hagrid says they have 
'bad blood', seem to be okay.

Pippin