[HPforGrownups] Malfoy's robes, Peter as Scabbers, Gregory and Vincent

[Yis M Koslowitz]

No: HPFGUIDX 24287



> Okay, WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY back in book one, before we knew Peter was
> Peter...there was a little rat named Scabbers, and he was a lazy 
> rat, so
> lazy that he buried himself in a pile of sweets  (or got buried 
> mistakenly)
> and didn't wake up until some big goon named Gregory stuck his 
> finger in
> said pile.  Now here's my question...why did Peter as Scabbers, bite 
> Goyle?
> He didn't have to.  It's not like he ever really did anything as 
> Scabbers
> beyond sleeping and shaking in a terrified manner.  So why bite him 
> at all?
> Was Goyle about to steal the Cauldron Cake he had been munching on 
> in his
> sleep?

I bet it was like a reflex. He felt a hand that looked familiar on him,
and thought it was his fellow Death Eater, Goyle Sr. and immediately bit
him. This would also have the effect of warning all Slytherins to leave
Ron Weasly's mangy rat alone. Peter would not like a practical joke where
Draco stole Scabbers and took him home over vacation - WAY too dangerous.

> Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, the two idiots of Slytherin...or 
> are they?
> We've all known guys like them in school.  Big, sorta quite, ASSUMED 
> to be
> idiots  (more muscles then brains), so could it all be an act?  One 
> of my
> more favored guy friends  (AKA Teddy Bear) was a big guy like these 
> two and
> was often assumed to be slow in the head and or dumb, but he 
> actually was
> the 4th ranked in our class and quite brilliant, but in public he 
> acted the
> part everyone assumed him to play.  Could this be the case with 
> Crabbe and
> Goyle?  Could their fathers have taken them aside one day before 
> their first
> year and said, 'Listen up son, you see that blonde prat over there?  
> His
> name's Draco.  His father's Lucius Malfoy and a real nasty bit of 
> work.  My
> advice to you is to stick by him, offer to beat up people for 
> him...but
> don't show him how smart ye are, just grunt a lot around him, save 
> you a lot
> of hassles while at school."
> Saitaina

No, I just think they're STOOPID. But rich scions of an old wizarding
family, hence their automatic admission to Hogwarts. We know that
powerful magical objects (like the good ol' Goblet of Fire) can be
Confunded, so probably some Ministry official can be "persuaded" to
ahem..."persuade" the book and quill to accept people. There's strong
intimation in the books that Mr. Weasley is only poor because he is so
honest, and I could imagine other, unscrupulous Ministry officials
getting quite wealthy on such kickbacks. 
Robyn