Pettigrew's silver hand and Book 7 (Was: My 7 book 7 predictions)

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 148005

> hpfan_mom:
> 
> 30 pieces of silver for the one who betrayed the Potters?
> 
> And I do agree with the post above, that JKR stating that PP will 
not
> use it to kill Lupin does NOT mean that PP won't use it to kill
> Greyback.  The silver bullet analogy is just too appropriate.
> 
> But maybe that's the Muggle way to defeat a werewolf and we need to
> think outside the box.


Exodusts:
I think so. JKR has said (from QQQ site):

"I've never, to my knowledge, lied when posed a question about the 
books. To my knowledge. You can imagine, I've now been asked hundreds 
of questions; it's perfectly possible at some point I misspoke or I 
gave a misleading answer unintentionally, or I may have answered 
truthfully at the time and then changed my mind in a subsequent book. 
That makes me cagey about answering some questions in too much detail 
because I have to have some leeway to get there and do it my way, but 
never on a major plot point."

I interpret this to mean she would never lie OR intentionally mislead 
people as to what might happen in her plots.

Then on her site there is this:

"Rumour: Peter Pettigrew's silver hand will be used to kill Remus 
Lupin.
JKR: Nice idea, clearly predicated on the legend that only a silver 
bullet can kill a werewolf - but incorrect."

It does not rule out that PP might kill Greyback. You can read it as 
meaning just that he won't kill Remus. But you could also read it as 
dismissing the whole silver hand v werewolf idea. There is potential 
ambiguity.

How to resolve that? Well, if PP does kill Greyback in book 7, then 
the rumour reply could still turn out to be factually correct. But it 
could then also be described as having been misleading. And JKR has 
said she doesn't do misleading. And the stuff she has dismissed in 
the Rumours section (e.g. "Luna is Snape's daughter") is not 
generally stuff that turned out to be close to the truth. She is 
playing a very cool game with her readers if she publicly dismisses 
PP-kills-Remus when she knows that PP-kills-Greyback.