Where Percy got Scabbers

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83757


> > <nineve_laguna at h...> wrote:
> > > Does any one knows where Percy got Scabbers? > > So, how did 
> > >Scabbers become a pet, from a filthy pest?

Arya wrote:
> > 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.  


<nineve_laguna at h...> wrote:(again)
> Sorry, Arya, but I meant where Percy got the pet, nome the name. I 
> want to know how Scabbers/Peter/whatever come to live with Percy.


Arya writes again: 
My point is that I would guess that whenever it was that Percy gained 
the rat with the scabby toes that he then called "Scabbers" might 
have been one of two (ok, three) things:
1-shortly after the Sirius Incident where Peter cut off his finger.  
This dates Percy as being about 5 years old at the time.  I forget in 
PoA how long Percy was supposed to have had Scabbers (no book here, 
sorry).
2-longer past the Finger severing incident which means it really 
should have healed and maybe it wasn't a simple slice and dice or a 
simple severing charm--maybe the finger was cut by something more 
sinister that left a curse on it that prevented it from healing 
properly.  
3- *sigh* I guess it could always just be the fact that Percy is a 
bit off and thought "Scabbers" was a cool name.  But, ug, why?

Arya