[HPforGrownups] Re: Trevor -- not the ideal pet

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 113726


>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.
Phil Responds:
Paddock was the toad in Macbeth.
the Second Witche's own familiar is a large, ugly toad.
The toad is a creature of transformation (tadpole to frog).
So maybe Trevor  will finally show some magic abilities in the next book.
Phil





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