Benjy

[Mimi Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 99247

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tub_of_earwax" 
> <tub_of_earwax at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Bennji Fenwick, 
> > STATUS: killed, only bits of him found.
> 
> He's another one who could still be alive, depending on which 
> bits were found.

This is the first thing I thought about Benjy too. The pattern with 
Pettigrew is there. And remember the news Harry heard at the 
beginning of OoP? There was the report about Bungy the water skiing 
budgie..... 

A couple of thoughts. I too would like to know just what bits of 
Benjy were found. I doubt it is an exact parallel to 
Pettigrew/Scabbers, but JKR could put a twist in it. I think another 
unregistered animagus would be overdoing that bit, but what about a 
registered animagus? Hermione tells us that there have only been 
seven registered animagi in the last century,  but she only names 
McGonagall. Maybe Benjy was one of the other six, but since Hermione 
didn't know anything about him at that point, she didn't have any 
reason to mention him.

Or maybe it has nothing to do with animagi, but he is under some 
other kind of curse that turned him into a budgie and keeps him that 
way. I've just been listening to the tapes of POA, and something I 
hadn't noticed before caught my attention. When Trelawny gives her 
prediction about the servant rejoining his master, she says that his 
chains will be broken, implying that he has been restrained in some 
way beyond his own will. Maybe he COULDN'T transform back into a 
human but didn't want to admit that to Lupin and Black. Or maybe 
prophecies aren't meant to be literal in every word...

I'll have to read the bit with the evening news again and see if the 
Fenwick part of his name fits in anywhere there.