Wednesday 30 December 2015

harry potter - Why did the silver hand turn against Wormtail?

Obvious spoilers for Deathly Hallows..



Excerpt from Slytherincess' answer to Why was Wormtail made a servant ?




Voldemort enchanted the silver hand to kill Wormtail if Wormtail showed the weakness of mercy.




Is there any source for this ? At one point, Dumbledore tells Harry that a life debt between two wizards is something very powerful (at the end of PoA I think). I always assumed that Wormtail wanted to kill Harry but that some kind of old magic prevented him from doing it.



So... Did Voldemort really enchanted it ? If so, why didn't the hand just kill Harry when it had the occasion ?



ETA : I just found this quote by JKR :




When Dumbledore said to Harry "Voldemort won't want a close associate who is in your debt", I wasn't implying by that there was any kind of magical bond there.




I throw my theory away :p see the accepted answer for more details

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