Where is Pettigrew?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91874

> > Ravenclaw Bookworm:
> 
> Why the old Black mansion is a lovely place to hide and wait! Who 
> would know better how to find his best friend's house and even sneak 
> in.  After all, there was no need for a secret keeper until the Order 
> moved in. "...Kreacher had made himself something that looked like a 
> nest.  A jumble of assorted rags and smelly old blankets were piled 
> on the floor and the small dent in the middle of it showed where 
> Kreacher curled up to sleep every night.  Here and there among the 
> material were stale bread crusts and moldy old bits of cheese." (US 
> ed. 504)  Sounds like the perfect place for 2 rats to share.
> 
> BTW, I realize Sirius would recognize Peter IF he saw him and that a 
> rat with a silver hand would stand out a bit.  We do not yet know the 
> properties of that hand.
> 
> "Harry heard something scuttling behind the baseboards" (US ed 61)


Carol:
Isn't the house hidden now that it's the Order's headquarters? So even
if he (like the former Black sisters) knows where it used to be, he
couldn't see it or enter it now? We haven't really finished exploring
the possibilities and impossibilities involved there, but I don't
think he'd be able to see it or enter it. Still, though, that
"scuttling" quotation is suggestive.

As for the silver paw, maybe human traits, including replacements for
body parts, might disappear during transformation just as clothing
does. If, for example, Mad Eye Moody were an animagus and could
transform himself into, say, a bear, would that bear have a rolling
eye and an artificial leg, conveniently furnished with a clawed foot,
or would he be a three-legged, one-eyed bear? I think he'd lose the
false eye and false leg. If I'm correct, Scabbers the rat wouldn't
have a silver paw, he'd just be an injured rat forced to scamper
through the sewers on three paws.

Carol