Scabber is NOT a rat (was Hyperbolic Chapter Titles )

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 81423

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" <entropymail at y...>
wrote:
> > --- 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?
> 
Well, we do have canon of another, similar spell involving Scabbers
working...

"Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son!
 Flesh of the servant - willingly given - you will revive your master.
 Blood of the enemy... forcibly taken... you will resurrect your foe."

It makes me wonder if we'll hear more about this type of spell later
on. Given the appearances in books 1 and 4, in the interest of
symmetry, I'm going to predict another spell of this type being cast
in book 7, by someone opposing Voldemort, possibly also involving
Peter...

--Arcum