Crookshanks reprised: Observations and Etymology

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:

> We know Ron fed Scabbers from his plate. Nobody thinks twice of a rat 
> with human food tastes until you look back and discover he was a human 
> in rat shape.
snip about Crookie's diet
  (To me this is important. I don't see Pettigrew sticking so 
> close to his role as Scabbers that he'd eat rat pellets or whatever).


	I'm afraid this isn't such a great clue...rats hang around people 
because they eat what people eat. And when scientists want to know if 
something is safe for human consumption they feed it to (drumroll here) 
rats. I haven't made a trial of this <g>, but I imagine a human could 
survive on rat pellets for a good long while. Pet food makers also tend 
to make their products tasty to humans, since humans obsessed with 
their pets like to sample the stuff.

Pippin