CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chamber of Secrets Chapter 17: The Heir of Slytherin

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 189311



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
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>  Nikkalmati:
> > > Tom talks about Hagrid keeping werewolf cubs under his bed.  What does that mean?  Werewolves are humans who, ike Lupin, have human children, such as, Teddy.  Their children do not transform and they would be human most of the time in any case.  What was JKR thinking?
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> > AM now - Oh, this made me laugh!
> > Seriously, either JKR didn't think at all, or there's a sort of sliding scale of werewolfishness; Fenrir, after all, is not entirely human even when the moon is new, at least to me. Perhaps some werewolves never have a human phase? I think I'm being charitable though, and this is on a par with the varying Hogwarts population and other Flints.
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> Pippin:
> JKR explained this one back in October of 2000.
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> http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1000-livechat-barnesnoble.html
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> blaise_42 asks: In Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid is supposed to have raised werewolf cubs under his bed. Are these the same kind of werewolves as Professor Lupin? 
> jkrowling_bn: no... Riddle was telling lies about Hagrid, just slandering him. 
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> I think JKR's explanation is plausible, since it fits with the kinds of outrageous slander the DE's will later spread about Muggleborns -- that they have stolen their magic from purebloods, for example. 
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> Pippin
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Nikkalmati

No,I think JKR was just trying to cover up her own slip.  If Riddle was saying bad things about Hagrid to Harry, it still would have to be something possible.  A foolish or stupid person would still have to be able to keep werewolf cubs or the hearer would just say "that's ridiculous".

Nikkalmati