Peter Pettigrew (was Re: Nel Question # 6. )

[Ravenclaw Bookworm]

No: HPFGUIDX 128103


Finwitch:
Yes, well... Remember it was Percy bringing the rat in... Possibly
just after getting his Hogwarts letter, asking if he could take it for
a pet... why would Molly say no? It's not like a pet of that sort
costs anything, and the poor dear had lost a finger...

Bookworm:
Except that in the Shrieking Shack someone points out that Scabbers 
had been with the Weasleys for 12 years.  Percy was had just finished 
school the previous year, so he would have gotten his letter only 8 
years earlier.  (Ron told Harry during the first trip on the Hogwarts 
Express that Scabbers was "Percy's old rat".)  

Hopefully we will find out just how Scabbers came to live with the 
Weasleys.

Ravenclaw Bookworm