Werewolf Mystery

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No: HPFGUIDX 153829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lanval1015" <lanval1015 at ...> wrote:


> Do you think it's a mistake/contradiction by the author that 
> werewolves in HBP are presented as Not Necessarily Killers (and no, 
> I didn't come up with this myself just to get Sirius off the hook; 
> it's all in HBP)? Or is there another explanation?
> 
> Lanval
>

I always thought it had more to do with physical circumstances. In PoA
the tunnel is described as being very low through which they have to
crawl and out of which they have to pull themselves. A human in the
tunnel will be with is hands on te ground and if he comes out of it it
will be head first. So if Snape had made it through the tunnel, the
first thing Lupin would have attacked would have been his head an
throat, also in the tunnel. And of course in the tunnel a human on
hands and knees would have a severy disadvantage in facing a werewolf.
So yes, I do think Snape was in mortal danger because of the
circumstances. 

Gerry