There Was a King in CoS-HBP revealed!

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 103722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jekatiska" <mauranen at y...> 
wrote:
> > > Ginger wrote:
> > > The basilisk is the King of Serpents.  We also know <snip> that
> > > the basilisk is made by hatching a chicken's egg under a toad. 
> > > 
> > > A half-blood basilisk would be either a chicken (male-rooster) 
or a 
> > > toad.  We know the roosters were all strangled, so that 
leaves....
> > > 
> > > Yes, Trevor is the HBP.
> 
> > Neri <still applauding> :
> > Yes! And you forgot to mention that a toad MUST be an enchanted 
> > prince!
> 
> Jekatiska:
> 
> And why else would Trevor attend lectures unlike the other kids' 
pets?
>  He must be an Animagus. And being a prince, he would turn into a
> toad... I like this theory!

And of course there is already a filk to treat of this issue (from 
Sondheim's Sweeney "Toad", no less)

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/theorybay.htm#The_Ballad_of_Trevo
r_Toad

   - CMC