Ron's Rat.... or was it???

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

This has come up a couple times recently but I didn't really have much
to add to those threads, but I do want to make one comment...

In the scene where Ron transforms a rat into a water goblet, we don't
know for a fact that that was Scabbers.

The perimeter of the room is surrounded by animal cages and each
student has been given an animal. It is entirely possible that Ron was
simply give a rat at random. 

Did anyone one notice if Neville had a toad??? Just curious.

So, there is speculation about whether the transformation would have
worked on an animagi. My point of course is that we don't know if it
was a common rat or if it was Pettigrew the animagi.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn