Trevor -- similarity to Scabbers

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, macfotuk at y... wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evita2fr" <Snarryfan at a...> 
> wrote:
 
Christelle:
 
> > I think he has a brief apparition in OOTP, when he show his 
plant. 
> I 
> > think that he gives Trevor to Harry to have his hand free or 
> > something.

Mac: 
> You're right Christelle - In the chapter 'Luna Lovegood' 
> (basically the Hogwarts Express up to Hogwarts chapter) the text 
> metions Trevor:
> 
> "...Neville held the *mimbulus mimbletonia* up to his eyes, his 
> tongue between his teeth, chose his spot, and gave the plant a 
sharp 
> prod with the tip of his quill.
>   Liquid squirted from every boil on the plant; thick, stinking, 
> dark green jets of it. they hit the ceiling, the windows, and 
> spattered Luna Lovegood's magazine; Ginny, who had flung up her 
arms 
> in front of her face just in time, merely looked as though she was 
> wearing a slimy green hat, but Harry, whose hands had been busy 
> trying to prevent Trevor's escape, received a faceful ..."

Geoff:
In actual fact, Trevor has a bit of a field day in this chapter - he 
gets mentioned no fewer than five times, including the one Mac gives 
above.

Prior to that one, we get:

'In the very last carriage, they met Neville Longbottom, Harry's 
fellow fifth-year Gryffindor, his round face shining with the effort 
of pulling his trunk along and maintaining a one-handed grip on his 
struggling toad, Trevor.'

(OOTP "Luna Lovegood" p.168 UK edition)

and 

'He dug the hand that was not keeping a firm grip on Trevor into his 
school bag and after a little bit of rummaging pulled out what 
appeared to be a small grey cactus in a pot, except that it was 
covered with what looked like boils rather than spines.'

(ibid. p.169)

and

'"Does it -er - do anything?" he asked.
"Loads of stuff!" said Neville proudly. "It's got an amazing 
defensive mechanism. Here, hold Trevor for me..."
He dumped the toad in Harry's lap and took a quill fom his schoolbag.'

(ibid. p,169)

Then comes Mac's reference and then we have:

'"Oh... hi," said Harry blankly.
"Um..." said Cho. "Well... just thought I'd say hello... bye then."
Rather pink in the face, she cloased the door and departed. Harry 
slumped back in his seat and groaned. He would rather have liked Cho 
to discover him sitting with a group of very cool people laughing 
their heads off at a joke he had just told; he would not have chosen 
to be sitting with Neville and Loony Lovegood, clutching a toad and 
dripping in Stinksap.'

(ibid. p.170)

Interesting. When you look at this in this context, Trevor does seem 
to be getting rather an overkill with being mentioned. Five times in 
three pages seems quite a lot. Surely, one or two references would 
have sufficed to let us know that dear old Trev was alive and 
kicking? Is there more to him than meets the eye?

I'll kick this one back to the conspiracy theorists.

Geoff
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