Trevor, the toad

[vicky_gwosdz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58525

<honeycakehorse03 at h...> wrote:

> At the moment I'm only in chapter 6 of book 1 and Trevor was 
> mentioned 6 times in that chapter alone. (The Journey from Platform 
> Nine and Three-Quarters.). Now, at that point no other animal (and 
> so far we know the Boa Constrictor, Hedwig and Scabbers) has been 
> referred to as often as Trevor. (actually Scabbers comes close but 
> when we take into account that Harry is talking to Ron the whole 
> time but barely exchanges two sentences with Neville, Trevor still 
> has overproportional "screentime". 

I think Trevor is mentioned so much because JKR wants to help us 
picture Neville as the boy we all had in our class rooms: Large 
glasses (that he often seems to lose, cfr Trevor), a bit slow, pants 
too short, and that everybody picks on. The boy that always forgets 
his homework and never got invited to birthday parties.

At least, that's how I picture Neville to be, and not in the least 
because of the fact that he always loses the pet that he didn't 
really want in the first place.

"Vicky"