[HPforGrownups] Re: Rats at Hogwarts (was Cedric and Pettigrew)

[danielle dassero]

No: HPFGUIDX 91946

I think maybe DD knew that scabbers wasn't no ordinary
rat. And he allowed Percy and Ron to bring him to keep
an eye out for him. He may not have known he was Peter
and maybe he did. It could have been a feeling and
that's why he pushed for Lupin in the 3rd year, could
Lupin have been hired after Sirious escaped or was he
hired before. If Lupin was hired after, then maybe DD
thought that scabbers was Peter, think about how DD
willingly believed HHR. Maybe he thought Sirious was
guilty, and then thought about it and just couldn't
believe it and tried to frind the truth.
Danielle D.
--- justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Elihu:
> Maybe because the Weasleys were on close terms with
> Dumbledore, 
> they got special permission to allow their son to
> bring a rat of 
> theirs to school. Dumbledore didn't know that this
> rat is a problem 
> until shortly before Percy graduated.
>  
> Chelle: 
> That's on the First years list. In the first book
> Lee Jordan, a third
> > year is bringing his pet tarantula to Hogwarts.
> Maybe the school wants
> > them to get settled and the idea of what type of
> environment they're
> > supposed to be living in before they decide to
> bring in a complicated
> > pet. I would guess, having a tarantula of my own
> they would have had
> > to rearrange the boys dorm for that year to
> accomidate Lee's pet.
> > It would have had to be something Lee felt
> comfortable with his year
> > mates about. 
> > Could you imagine arriving your first year
> terrified of spiders and
> > your roomate springs a giant tarantula on you?
> Cats, toads, and owls
> > are pretty safe.
> > 
> 
> Carol:
> Actually, rats are pretty safe, too, much more
> intelligent and docile
> than many people give them credit for being. I see
> no reason why
> Dumbledore would not have allowed a silent exception
> to the general
> rule of which kinds of pets would be allowed for the
> Weasleys, who
> didn't have a large income. And he would have made
> the exception
> twice, once for Percy as a first-year (he would have
> acquired Scabbers
> when he was about five) and again for Ron as a
> first-year (Percy gave
> Scabbers to Ron after he was rewarded for becoming a
> prefect by being
> given his own owl, Hermes).
> 
> I don't think that the rule about having a toad OR a
> cat OR an owl is
> absolute in terms of the animals allowed (neither
> Lee's tarantula nor
> Scabbers is shipped back home by the nearest owl). I
> think it's the
> "OR" that's important (and consequently capitalized
> and repeated):
> they're allowed just one animal. I also think that
> the list includes
> the most common and popular pets. If I were DD, I'd
> have strong
> reservations about pet bats and I'd definitely ban
> dogs, but as long
> as the tarantula is kept in his box (and is not an
> acromantula in
> disguise) and the rat spends most of his time in a
> boy's pocket, I
> can't see any reason to make a fuss. Some rules are
> absolute (you
> don't enter the Forbidden Forest without permission)
> and others are
> flexible. If McGonagall can bend the rule about
> first-years not having
> their own brooms, Dumbledore can certainly allow
> first Percy and then
> Ron a pet rat.
> 
> Carol
> 
> 


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