Pettigrew Attacked Ron?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109162

While trying to find a quote for some reply this morning, I came across this, which I truly have never noticed before, in the chapter of PoA titled Hermione's Secret.

"Professor, Black's telling the truth -- we saw Pettigrew --
--he escaped when Professor Lupin turned into a werewolf --
--he's a rat --
--Pettigrew's front paw, I mean, finger, he cut it off --"
NOW, GET THIS...
"--Pettigrew attacked Ron, it wasn't Sirius --"

Where did that come from?  

Scabbers had faked his own death in February on a Thursday (Lupin/Harry's Patronus lessons were on Thursdays) - before the Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw match - in fact, the day Harry got his Firebolt back.  There was a Quidditch practice the next day, then the match on Saturday against Ravenclaw, which Gryffindor won.
 
Saturday night, after the festivities, Ron was attacked. Ron said, "Black! Sirius Black! With a knife!" and "Perce -- Sirius Black! In our dormitory! With a knife! Woke me up!" Later, Ron describes Black "and I saw him standing over me ... like a skeleton, with loads of filthy hair..."  This sort of matches Harry's description of Black from the muggle news was "whose gaunt face was surrounded by a matted, elbow-length tangle," especially that it is now seven months later. Granted Ron wouldn't have known what Pettigrew looked like, but he would have seen pictures of Black in the Daily Prophet, and presumably spread over the town of Hogsmeade. (Although that is not stated, there were pictures of the 10 escaped DEs posted in the town in OotP.)  Professor McGonagall asks Sir Cadogan if he let a man into the tower and Sir Cadogan said that he had, and that the man had the whole weeks' passwords written on a piece of paper.  Sir Cadogan didn't say it was Black, Peeves told DD it was Black when the Fat Lady was attacked the previous Hallowe'en.

In the Shrieking Shack, Black is speaking "He [Crookshanks] tried to bring Peter to me, but couldn't .. so he stole the passwords into Gryffindor Tower for me ... he took them from a boy's bedside table..."  then black says "But Peter got wind of what was going on and ran for it ... this cat -- Crookshanks, did you call him? -- told me Peter had left blood on the sheets ... I suppose he bit himself ... well, faking his own death had worked once..."    Black had the list of passwords.  

Nobody, in the Shrieking Shack admitted or denied attacking Ron, it was never mentioned.

Would Scabbers have also known the passwords?  He rarely left the tower room.  If he had seen the list on Neville's table?  Could it have been Pettigrew who actually attacked Ron?  Why would he have done so?  Is Pettigrew not only able to transform himself into a rat, but have some way of transforming into Black?  Sirius used to keep his hair cut short (first OotP picture), was Pettigrew cutting it for him and pocketing some of the hairs?  Oh, why would he need hairs...I wonder.....

Why does this say "Pettigrew attacked Ron, it wasn't Sirius"?????

DuffyPoo

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