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

[laurie goudge]

No: HPFGUIDX 128137


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.


Laurie:

For me what makes the most sense is that Wormtail most
likely moved in after wandering for a while and
(probably) didn't know whom he moved in with till
later. That said it was probably an added bonus when
Harry became friends with Ron. 

laurie