Draco, the Ferret-Faced Slytherin

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6530

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Karin " <karob_7 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Draco, the Ferret-Faced Slytherin

what a very Gryffindor song.
> 
> Then one ordinary school day,
> Mad-Eye came to say (Constant Vigilance!),
> Malfoy, with your face like a ferret,
> Wouldn't you like to be a rodent?

Ferrets are not rodents. Ferrets are mustelids, related to weasels 
and minks and ermines and stoats and European polecats. A number of 
Americans have ferrets as cuddly pets -- they look UTTERLY cute -- 
and some call them 'weasels' as the kind of rude affectionate 
nickname as calling your beloved dog 'fleabag' or 'mutt'. Why is it 
only mink and ermines, not ferrets and weasels and stoats and 
polecats, who are known for enthusiastic sex lives? Is it just that 
mink and ermine fur are worn by rich humans as well as by minks 
and ermines?

The on-line Britannica says: 
Ferret:
either of two mammals belonging to the genus Mustela of the weasel 
family (Mustelidae). The common ferret (M. putorius furo) is a 
domesticated form of the European polecat (q.v.), which it 
resembles... 
the caption of the illustration is: 
Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)

I found another site for info: 
http://www.ferretcentral.org/faq/history.html