Trevor

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 29671

Diane wrote:

Trevor is in many ways not the standard pet/familiar the kids bring 
to Hogwarts.
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> What if Trevor isn't really a toad at all, but a person? 


Yup, there's definitely something going on with that darn toad.  If 
there isn't, I'm going to be mightily annoyed because Trevor gets a 
lot of attention.

Here's my unsupportable Trevor theory.  Trevor cannot be another 
animagus, as we've seen that before with Scabbers/Sirius/Rita, and 
JKR won't dust that one off again.  

I think Trevor is a "vessel" containing something important.  Perhaps 
Trevor carries the consciousness of Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom or 
Neville.  If it is Mr. or Mrs. Longbottom, then they aren't really 
insane; their conscious selves are embodied in Trevor.  That would 
explain why Neville is so anxious about the whereabouts and well-
being of his silly little toad.  

Or perhaps when the DEs broke in, Mrs. Longbottom transferred 
Neville's memory into Trevor to protect Neville.  Or perhaps the DEs 
who tortured Neville's parents transferred his memory of what 
happened into Trevor to protect themselves against being 
identified.   Neither of these theories works for me, however, 
because I think Neville was too young to remember anything, so all of 
this hocus pocus would have been rather pointless.

Cindy