Running Weasels/it's rubbish: official

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> Well, I'm personally confident it's a bogus story.  
(big snip of evidence!)

Carolyn: 
I'm inclined to agree. I dug about on dozens of websites, and found 
this comment on:

http://www.cosforums.com/archive/index.php/t-3887.html

December 27th, 2002, 5:51 am
Originally posted by joelaughing 
Im pretty sure that running weasel thing is a hoax. Somewhere on 
these boards someone said that they researched it and nothing came up 
except in HP sites or something. (...) I did. I'm positive it's a 
hoax, I used about five search engines and a couple of 
encyclopaedias. Not a bean. Except for the Harry Potter websites that 
hold this 'fact', I mean. Surely somebody with all these facts around 
him would be floating about somewhere?

(Carolyn again):

I also found a long discussion about the rumour on Sugarquill:

http://www.sugarquill.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t245.html

Generally, they do not believe it, and make reference to something on 
fictionalley which definitively debunked it. However, I can't find 
that discussion on FA. The only thing they found on Sugarquill was:

'There was one page about some American Indians and a guy named 
Running Weasel. But absolutely nothing about any yellow rat legend.'

So, it sounds as though it's rubbish. Lets put it under 
mistakes/perpetrating mistakes unless we come across a post with 
better evidence to disprove it. But if you find a really well 
researched post that pins down the hoax, that might be worth keeping, 
for the record.

Phew. What LOONS we are, given half a chance.

Carolyn