Fenrir's ancestry (was: DDM!Snape & the UV)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 149935

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:

> > Pippin:
> > I think Greyback is Muggleborn. Rowling says that Muggleborns
> > are allowed to be Death Eaters in unusual circumstances.
> > http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=80
> > 
> > It sounds like Fenrir could be the character she was thinking of.
> 
> 
> Carol responds:
> Muggle*born*, maybe, but surely not a Muggle as PAR originally
> suggested. Greyback obviously lives in the WW and associates only with
> wizards; he has a Dark Mark that enables him to get through the
> barrier on the stairs (even in the unlikely event that Voldie made a
> Muggle a DE, the Muggle's Dark Mark would not have magical
> properties); and he can keep his werewolf properties (except for the
> power to transform others) all month long, suggesting inborn magical
> powers. A Muggle of any sort would not be a "family friend" of the
> pureblood Malfoys. He would not even be able to see Hogwarts, which is
> hidden by spells from Muggle eyes.

Annemehr:
I don't agree with your assumptions here.  I would think that a Muggle
who was bitten becomes a Werewolf, i.e. something magical, and so may
very well choose to live in the magical world.  He's at least as
magical as, say, Filch. 

A Dark Mark, as far as we know, is a charm or spell cast *upon* a DE
for Voldemort's use, not something a DE wields himself for magical
purposes.  Why wouldn't a Muggle's Dark Mark have magical properties?
 Muggle Artifacts can be charmed ("Misused" is the MoM term) -- look
at Arthur's Ford Anglia.  Muggles can be Obliviated, Crucioed and what
have you.  Even the barrier to the tower, which was believed to allow
only those bearing a Dark Mark to cross, was most probably cast with a
wand with the Mark itself being merely a passive means of ID.  Again,
as I said above, I don't think a Muggle-turned-werewolf is exactly a
Muggle any longer, anyway.

Fenrir's taste for flesh all month long is not persuasive to me,
either -- it's a mere preference, not a sign of a wizard.  It's just a
creepy part of his evil personality, I believe.

Fenrir's been a Werewolf for a long time, and probably DE since VWI --
enough for Draco to call him a "family friend."  Draco did not mean
that he was *literally* a friend, anyway, as evidenced by his reaction
to him on the tower.

The strongest reason to believe Fenrir was not ever a Muggle is that
if he were, there was probably no point in him being on this mission
while the moon was not full.  However, as it was Draco's mission to
run, and Draco did not invite him, Fenrir may only have come for the
reasons he gave Dumbledore.

If I were betting, I certainly wouldn't wager much that Fenrir was
born a Muggle, but I don't think it's safe to rule it out, either.

Annemehr