"Trevor, it's for you."

[jksunflower2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 95145

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> Where's Trevor?
> What's  happened to our favourite amphibian?
> 
> Has he been taking a breather until the coming of his apotheosis, 
that 
> glorious moment when, in the full flower of his warty strength, he 
> rises from his humble station to shake the foundations of the 
> Potterverse?
> 
> Or has he breathed his last, now an unrecognised lump of 
desiccated 
> something, mouldering gently at the bottom of Mrs Norris's basket?
> 
> It's a long time since TOADMASTER I & II bestrode the site, avidly 
> promoted by diseased imaginations as either the embodiment of 
Neville's 
> parents minds or an evil spy, cunningly placed to report  all to 
the 
> forces of repression. Could still happen, though time is running 
> dangerously short for the little fellow to reveal all.
> 
> Last year I wondered if he'd set up house in Moaning Myrtle's 
cubicle; 
> or perhaps had fallen victim to the Mermen - served up on a half-
shell 
> with a piquant garnish as an appetising snack.
> Even such a foul calumny did not provoke him to break  cover and 
> protest.
> This is ominous.
> 
> Snape would know all about toads. You see, they have magical 
> properties. Oh my word, yes! Even Shakespeare gave them a line  or 
two:
> 
> Sweet are the uses of adversity,
> Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
> Wears yet a precious jewel in it's head.
> 
> (If you ask nicely, ladyramkin2000 will tell you that's from 'As 
You 
> Like It'.)
> 
> "And what  is this precious jewel?"  you mutter between yawns.
> The toadstone. Found in a toad's head it will when touched to any 
> envenomed hurt causes the pain to cease and the wound to heal. 
Nagini, 
> anyone?
> 
> Just what the plot needs - yet another little helper  to save 
Harry's 
> bacon as doom looms closer. Can't use Fawkes again, he's had his 
15 
> minutes of fame already. Or will it be Neville that needs saving, 
just  
> for a  change? Of course, for it to work somebody is going to have 
to 
> perform a rough and ready craniotomy on Trevor, which will 
definitely 
> put him out of the running in the "Pet that causes the least mess' 
> competition, but what the hell, it'll all be in a good cause.
> 
> Assuming, that is, that the other... No, no, you don't want to 
hear it. 
> Well, if you insist.
> 
> There's another bit of mythology - surprising really, that our 
French 
> members haven't brought it up. Concerns Roland, yep, him of the 
Song. 
> The device on his banner was 3 toads. No accounting for taste. One 
day 
> when he went into battle the toads turned into fleurs-de-lis. And 
the 
> fleur-de-lis is the Lily.
> Silly really. Don't tell Harry - he might get the stories mixed up 
and 
> it'd be really upsetting for the poor lad if he picked the wrong 
one 
> and saw something shocking bouncing down the  dormitory steps.
> 
> There's only one problem.
> Anyone seen Trevor?
> Give him a call, tell him he might be needed.
> 
> Kneasy


I was wondering if perhaps Trevor was simply representative of 
Neville himself. The "jewel" being a memory of Neville's that 
will prove to be the key to the entire mystery. I've just been
too busy **coughlazycough** to pursue it further.  Anyone?

Also, more on toads and alchemy:

http://main.amu.edu.pl/~rafalp/ART/toad.html

uh,Toad