[HPforGrownups] Re: Just Wondering...Add Your Opinion...

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 32641

jrober4211 wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "alihp719" <ali719 at h...> wrote:
> > Why would Scabbers bite Goyle on the train to Hogwarts when he,
> > Crabbe, and Malfoy are annoying Ron, Hermione and Harry? Wouldn't
> > he like them considering their families are Voldemort's supporters as
> > well?
> 
> I asked this very same question that got rejected by the moderators.
> Now that it's made it through, does anyone have any theories? 

How much do you want to bet that the senior Crabbe and Goyle were
the same kind of bullies at Hogwarts that their sons are now? 
(Though possibly tagging after a different leader.)  Peter
Pettigrew would have been =just= the sort of boy that bullies
love to target, don't you think?  (Rather the way Neville is in
the current generation.)  

IOW, sweet, sweet revenge for little Peter.  :)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>