Animagus thoughts (RATS!) / SHIP RH / TR vs LV

[Gabriel Edson]

No: HPFGUIDX 34473

>>Peter seems pathetic, but is quite dangerous, especially when cornered.  He is a rat (a very apt animagus form) - 
sneaky, devious, always looking out for number one, and if you push him too far he will bite.<<

Okay, I've been keeping quiet on this whole thing, but I've got to react to this. I'm a pet rat breeder, and as such have done ENORMOUS amounts of research on both domestic and wild rats, and this whole thing is a bunch of unfortunate and untrue sterotyping. Rats are highly social, very intelligent, loving animals. They live in groups, will sacrifice themselves for the good of the colony, and mourn their dead. They are wonderful parents, and they are one of the VERY few rodents who can be kept with males together in a cage who don't kill each other... male rats form very tight social bonds, as do females. Parent-child bonds are the strongest, and even the males make great parents. Also, rats almost NEVER bite. You have to really hurt, scare or corner one to get it to bite you. I was thrilled when Scabbers showed up in the first book. Good press for pet rats, YAY!

Then PoA came along. *sigh*
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BTW, does anyone else wonder why Remus never attacked James while in Animagus form? Isn't a deer the natural prey of a wolf? It always seemed very strange to me. 
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On SHIPping...

I personally prefer H/H, but I believe in my heart of hearts that JKR is setting up H/R, H/G. People like to toss around the fact that R/H'ers aren't respecting what Hermione wants, since most of what gets cited in SHIPping arguements is from GoF. However, GoF is just where RON notices HERMIONE in an obvious way. However, you have to look back to PoA for Hermione's interest in Ron. Now, I don't have my copy on my (at work) so please excuse me for paraphrasing.

When Ron and Harry were angry at Hermione, she is MUCH more upset about Ron being angry than Harry. When Harry forgives her (after he gets his broomstick back) and invites her to join the Quiddich win party, she gets hysterical and points at RON.

"HE doesn't want me to!"

When Ron confirms this, she runs away crying. It doesn't really seem to matter much to her that HARRY has forgiven her and is okay with her again. It's RON'S good opinion she wants.

For what it's worth, I do think that the post-Yule Ball yelling match was Hermione telling Ron he should invite her out BECAUSE she actually wants him to. She's not a devious girl, and would never invite his attention if she didn't want it. I think it probably really hurt her feelings when he "noticed" she's a girl, but while in PoA she was much more immature and ran away crying, in GoF she got angry. Remember, girls are a year or so ahead of boys emotionally at that age.

That's my theory.
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I asked this once before, but no one answered: Why does Dumbledore, in the very beginning of the first book, insist that "Lord Voldemort's" name be spoken, and that things should be called by their proper name... why doesn't he call LV "Tom Riddle" then? He's one of the "few people" who know that TR is LV. Why is that? Why is it a secret?


Gabriel
Pack House Quidditch Team Keeper
"Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?"

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