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

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> > Nikkalmati
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> > 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".
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> > Nikkalmati
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> AM now - Oh, I don't know; there's a great blindness, an unwillingness to see in the Wizarding world that Tom would have siezed upon. He does, after all, ask Draco, "And will you babysit the cubs?" in the first chapter of DH. The whole beast/being debate is interesting, and how many would have met, or known they'd met a werewolf? I don't suppose werewolves would have talked about their 'affliction' much, so  would many know the statement was wrong?
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Pippin:

If Riddle ever actually spread that rumour about Hagrid, it was probably among other students who might believe it even if their professors wouldn't. 

But Tom is a compulsive liar and so will lie even when he doesn't need to.   It is  likely a lie twice over, both a lie that werewolves have cubs and that Hagrid was ever suspected of keeping them. What does it matter? He's talking to twelve year old Harry, who is going to be killed as soon as Riddle is finished questioning him.

 Draco is hardly in a position to say, "Nonsense, Master, werewolves don't have cubs." It is like telling Lucius that the rest of the Slytherins have joined him. Lucius may already know  that isn't true, but Voldemort doesn't care what Lucius thinks any more. 


Pippin