Where Percy got Scabbers

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nineve_laguna" 
<nineve_laguna at h...> wrote:
> Does any one knows where Percy got Scabbers? If he was his pet 
before,
> he must have got Scabbers somehow, didn't he know, the humungous 
> bighead, that it was "a common garden mouse", or was he in 
allegiance
> with the Dark Side all along, the traitorous wizard.
> Pets don't just appear out of nowhere, except cats, that is. But 
> there is a mouse in my bed, I just keep it there? I don't think so. 
> So, how did Scabbers become a pet, from a filthy pest?
> Nineve

I'm not real sure but I'd bet that the name "scabbers" indicates that 
Peter's missing/severed finger(Wormtail's toe) was still a 
bit "scabby" when Percy got him.  

Arya