Transfiguration Question

[ajlboston]

No: HPFGUIDX 59198

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/31/2003 6:30:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Corinth writes about Draco the former ferret:
>Maybe someday he'll be able to do nothing at all but squeak and 
scurry about the floor.  

This is really minor, but it always bugged me, so: ferrets don't 
squeak-- they're weasels, not rodents--  they say 'dook dook'or 'wook 
wook!'

(On that note, wild rats are not grey-- the blue mutation only came 
about in 1993 or so-- wild rats are agouti, which is a tricolor 
ticking of brown, black, beige hairs.  And they do not have paws; 
they have little hands.)

Anyway!  JKR is not expected to know every nonmagical creature she 
writes of firsthand.  >:)

A.J.