[HPforGrownups] Scabbers/Wormtail: What Kind of Rat Am I?

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 9180

  I've always pictured Scabbers as a sort of tame white lab rat, the kind we ran through mazes in back in introductory psych class.  But re-reading Chap 33 in GoF, where Voldemort describes the return of Wormtail: "He sought me in the country where it had been long rumored that I'd been hiding...helped, of course, by the rats he met along the way. Wormtail has a curious affinity with rats...His filthy little friends told him there was a place deep in the Albanian forest...where small animals like themselves had met death by a dark shadow that possessed them."

  I doubt that Albania is overrun with ferral lab rats. Did Pettigrew change into a wild rat? Do Wizard kids keep wild rats as pets? Or as a magic white rat, is Pettigrew still able to converse with wild rats (which would otherwise surely kill him - rats are particularly vicious against rats of different species). 

    - CMC




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