Trevor -- not the ideal pet

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 113724

 
> 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")

Potioncat:
I couldn't snip "Macbeth"!  Also, one of these three witches has a 
toad for a familiar.  But I've forgotten its name.  Graymalkin of 
couse was the cat.