POA: Scabbers / Pettigrew & the Weasleys

[Beth]

No: HPFGUIDX 98332

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
[snip] 
Ginger:  
> I think Erin explained it well.  I'm just chiming in to set the 
> record straight on the reference.
> 
> It was QA in which it was commented that "the witch or wizard who 
> finds him- or herself transfigured into a bat may take to the air, 
> but, having a bat's brain, they are sure to forget where they want 
to go the moment they take flight." 
> 
> No mention of vampires, although the mental leap is understandable.
> 
> Ginger, at your service

Beth:
:-) Thank you, Ginger. See what happens when one doesn't reference 
canon? 

You're right, Erin explained it very well. I think I was reaching to 
find an explanation of how Peter would keep tabs on things in the 
WW. I also think, no matter how creepy it would be to have Pettigrew 
creeping around the vicinity of the Burrow as himself and not 
Scabbers, how strange it is that he would /want/ to spend all those 
years merely as a rat, undoubtedly being "taught" tricks by the boys 
and being used for spell practice when they got bored. Is his fright 
of a weakened Voldemort enough to explain this? Is there somewhere 
(besides Fantastic Posts, I read that) I should be looking?

Beth