Trevor -- not the ideal pet

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113705

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> "Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may 
> reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a 
> chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad." From the Lexicon.
> 
> I wonder if Trevor has any part in this. I know that the basilisk 
> was there already. But it is rather suspicious..  the basilisk is 
> dead now, maybe someone is trying to hatch a new one? But they could 
> use any toad I guess.  Just wondering if there is any connection.  
> Like I said before, after awhile there are clues everywhere, even 
> when they are not real clues. Everything seems like a clue.  Ahhhhh. 
> going crazy!!
> 
> Tonks_op

Carol responds:
BTW, has anyone thought about why a toad (not a frog, as people keep
saying) might be considered a good pet for a witch or wizard, at least
by an eccentric member of the older generation like Uncle Algie? Aside
from their role in hatching basilisks, toads are time-honored potion
ingredients:

Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
(First Witch, "Macbeth")

No wonder Neville fears for Trevor in Snape's class! (Not that I think
Snape would really boil him i' the charmed pot.)

Carol