Scabbers/Wormtail: What Kind of Rat Am I?

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 9208

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> 
wrote:
  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.  
 
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). 


I'm not sure if Scabbers was a wild rat, per se, but in Chapter 6 
(The Journey From Platform 9 & 3/4) he is described as a "fat, gray 
rat."  (US ed. pg 100)  And they do sell grey rats at the pet store.  
I saw one Thursday afternoon at a local pet shop as I was checking 
out the furry and feathered critters on display while picking up cat 
food.  Naturally, I thought of Scabbers and Wormtail.

Trina, whose cat Dudley was *not* named after the great bullying git!