The Cockroach Connection?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 107086

"wanderingstar1979" <WanderingStar20 at aol.com> pointed out:

>Also, why (as Potioncat brought up) does Snape keep a
>jar of these in his office, when (according to the Harry Potter
>lexicon) they are not used in any spells?  All the Lexicon says
>about "cockroaches, dead" is that: "Snape keeps a jar of these in his
>office"??

*snip*

>Now, I don't know if this means puppies and kittens can't eat dead
>cockroaches as well, but it definitely means that birds eat
>cockroaches, probably live and dead, lending more canon evidence to
>the theory that Snape could be a bird animagus.  Why else would he
>have dead cockroaches, unless there is some kind of potion we haven't
>learned about?  Of course that is possible, but still, more food
>(literally, since they would be bird animagus snacks) for thought.

I'm of two minds about the animagus theory.  On the one hand, we have had an 
awful lot of them already for something that's supposed to be rare.  On the 
other hand, Hermione never did tell us *who* the other six registered 
animagi were -- all she said was that one of them was MacGonagall.  As I 
said elsewhere, I wouldn't fall down with amazement if Dumbledore, for 
example, was registered, and if Harry and/or Ron find out about it and that 
she knew it all along, she would probably say "Well, I just looked it up in 
the library, and you could have too!"

But I wonder if there isn't something about cockroaches too.  How often have 
we heard about Cockroach Clusters?  It's sold at Honeydukes (Fred and George 
suggest feeding some to Percy and claiming they're peanuts), and I do 
believe it's used somewhere as a password.


Janet Anderson

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