Scabber is NOT a rat (was Hyperbolic Chapter Titles )

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No: HPFGUIDX 81359

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meltowne" <meltowne at y...> 
> wrote:

> >When Ron 
> > tried to cast spells on scabbers, he was trying to turn a RAT into 
> > something yellow:
> > 
> >           "Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,
> >           Turn this stupid fat rat yellow."
> > 
> > The spell failed, not because Ron was a lousy spellcaster, but 
> > because Scabbers wasn't really a rat!  He was a human in disguise.

I don't think it had anything to do with whether Scabbers was an
actual rat or animagus rat. I've always thought that it becomes clear,
later on in the book, why the spell doesn't work: it comes from Fred
and George! And, as we come to know, the twins are always happy to
have a laugh at someone else's expense, especially if it's Ron. They
just wanted to make him look silly by "teaching" him a bogus spell. I
mean, with all of those foreign-sounding spells we've come to know so
well (imperius, crucio, accio...), that whole "sunshine, daisies,
butter mellow" thing sounds a bit ridiculous, doesn't it?

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