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

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

Steve (bboy_mn) wrote:

> 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.

Now me:

I must comment since the rat-goblet transfiguration is one of my 
greatest gripes with the movie.  I've only seen the movie once, but 
IIRC, I thought each student had their own pet with them (I think I 
remember Neville with Trevor and Harry with Hedwig, but I'd have to 
watch it again to be sure).  Of course, some students (like Hermione 
at this point) don't have their own pet, so they could have been 
given pets from the cages you noticed.

While it's possible that each student was given an animal that was 
not their own, since we *know* that Ron has a pet rat, it's a logical 
conclusion to think it's Scabbers.  Even if you've only watched the 
movies and have no familiarity with the books, since Scabbers was in 
the first movie, it would be a logical conclusion to make.  Of note 
is that in PS/SS (both the movie and the book), the spell that was 
supposed to turn Scabbers yellow failed.

~Phyllis