Oh Rats

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No: HPFGUIDX 76808

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Serena Moonsilver" 
<serenamoonsilver at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lziner" <lziner at y...> wrote:
> > Did anyone notice how often dead rats are mentioned in 
connection 
> > with Sirius?  He eats them in GoF and feeds them to buckbeak in 
> > OOtP.  A vicarious way of murdering Peter - perhaps?  Just a 
> thought-
> > missing snuffles.
> > Lz
> 
> Ok--wild speculation.  Not only is representative of his hatered 
of 
> Peter, but some way most likely indirectly he manages to get his 
> revenge on Peter towards the end of the books (but for all you 
> Sirius fans out there, maybe this indicates that in some way he 
will 
> come back from the dead!).
> 
> 
> Serena

 I think this is an example of good writing, to have him eating 
plenty of rats symbolises his hatred of peter and his agressiveness 
towards him, for those who recognise it, as you certainly have, it's 
a very good way of showing sirius's feelings(even if they were 
overtly clear already)

 Seb