Scabber's first appearance

[Jamie]

No: HPFGUIDX 30739

Calypso  - "The more likely reason is that Peter was a rat and 
therefore had a rat brain. He wouldn't have known Draco before 
Voldemort fell because Draco was a baby then and Peter hadn't shown 
his true colors. As a rat in PS/SS the name Malfoy would mean nothing 
to him as his rat brain wouldn't have been able to recall much about 
it."


I don't know.  If when Peter changed into a rat, he thought 
completely like a rat, how would he remember to change to his human 
form?   We know from Sirius that one's mental state changes when you 
assume animal form, but it is hard for me to believe that it would 
completely change.  It seems like you would have to retain some sort 
of human conciousness.

- Jamie (who finds this hard to believe, but not the fact that a man 
could change into a rat...hmmm...)