Twins/Percy/Ron/Molly

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No: HPFGUIDX 36130

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jedi Knight Jo" <jloveys at z...> wrote:

> Scabbers was always something I wondered about too.  It would seem 
that the Weasley parents are familiar enough by now to know that a rat 
isn't an approved pet (at least for a first year - Scabbers was 
originally Percy's so I wondered if maybe older students are allowed 
different pets), but they let Ron take him anyway.  Similarly, I never 
thought about Lee Jordan having the giant tarantula as a pet (maybe a 
new friend for Aragog?), I always thought it was to play a nice joke 
one someone (or a few someones) - his friendship with the Twins means 
he has to have a sense of humour and his Quidditch commentary shows it 
even more (how did he get that job anyway?).  It never even occurred 
to me that the tarantula was a pet rather than a prank waiting to 
happen. :)

Bringing a rat is *not* forbidden (unlike broomsticks for first 
years), but owls, cats and toads are favoured in case there's trouble 
about pets not fitting together.
 
> >>To me, the bigger mystery is how Fred and George NEVER saw Peter 
> Pettigrew hanging arouund with Ron. S'okay, they had no need to look 
> into the Gryffindor Class of 1998 boys' dorm, so they didn't see Ron 
> in bed with a male name they didn't recognise, but how did they 
never 
> see Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Peter wandering the Castle together?<<
> 
> Good point.  Maybe it's because they never spied on Little Brother?  
Maybe they just never noticed Ron and Co when they were looking at the 
map to avoid being caught in trouble by a teacher?  If they're intent 
on, say. what Snape is doing where, it's fairly safe to say that they 
might miss Ron when he's likely to be mixed in with a load of other 
students taking a class or eating or going through the corridors.

They weren't looking *that* part of the map - or if they DID see 
something, who would they tell? Then again, seeing animal-formed 
animagus *might* require a special password added to the one making 
the map visible.
 
> >>"Q: If you could travel to Hogwarts for an hour, what would you do 
> there? 
> JKR: Go straight into a certain room, mentioned in book four which 
> has certain magical properties Harry hasn't discovered yet!"  
> 
> And when this statement was being debated, someone made a plausible 
> argument that she was referring to the chamberpot room. Of course, 
> other people made equally plausible arguments for the prefects' 
> bathroom, the little room next to the Great Hall, and the kitchen.<<
> 
> How about the room where the wands were 'weighed' as part of the 
Tournament?  Or even the broom cupboard where Harry had his interview 
with Rita Skeeter?  Maybe it does a TARDIS type move on certain days 
and turns into something huge. ;)

I think the cupboard can give instant, safe transport to *any* place 
in Hogwarts (like the lift in Star Trek), all you have to do is get 
in, close the door and say where you want to go! Or grant a wiew on 
certain rooms...