ESE!Pigwidgeon?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 122712


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Constance Vigilance" 
<ConstanceVigilance at g...> wrote:
> 
> I hear everybody going "Huh?" How could such a cute pet be ESE?
> 
> I've been suspicious of Pig for a while, and I've collected a set of
> reasons why I think we might reconsider Ron's pet. Let's enumerate.
> 
> He has a lot in common with Scabbers.
> 
> 1 - He is Ron's only beloved pet.
> 2 - He was given to Ron by someone Ron trusts 
> 	Scabbers: Percy, Pig: Sirius 
> 3 - He has unknown origins. 
> 	Where was Scabbers before he got to Percy? 
> 	Where was Pig before he got to Sirius?
> 4 - He's sort of incompetent at what he is supposed to do.
> 	Scabbers mostly sleeps except once when he attacks Goyle.
> 	Pig is really too small to be a post owl although he puts 
forth a
> good effort.
> 
> He doesn't seem really "owlish".
> 
> 1 - He's really tiny.
> 2 - He twitters instead of hooting.
> 3 - He zooms around. Owls are graceful silent flyers.
> 
> (Warning - metathinking coming)
> 
> He seems to be deliberately written to remind us of a Golden Snitch.
> 
> 1 - He fits in one hand.
> 2 - He zooms around, and probably would be hard to catch if he 
didn't
> want to be caught.
> 
> Or, could it be the other way around? Could JKR have designed Golden
> Snitches and Quidditch itself as a giant setup for a climactic chase
> where Harry MUST catch an escaping Pigwidgeon?
> 
> From OneLook.com online dictionary 
> "Snitch" noun: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the 
police.
> verb: take by theft, give away information about somebody
> 
> 1 - Snitches carry information, as do post owls.
> 2 - The owls at Hogwarts spend a lot of time unsupervised in the 
owlry
> or elsewhere. Could Pig be passing information to somebody when 
nobody
> is looking?
> 3 - In Sirius' letter where we first meet Pig, Sirius says that this
> was the only owl available. Why? There is usually an abundance of 
owls
> around when you need one. Why a sudden shortage so that ONLY this 
one
> could do the job? And why was he so eager? 
> 
> In short, I think we need to keep our eyes on ubercute Pigwidgeon. 
He
> could be a real snitch.
> 
> ~Constance Vigilance, whose heart would be broken if proved correct,
> but here is the evidence anyway

Hickengruendler:

First, let me say that this is the most entertaining and surprising 
theory I read for months. I enjoyed reading your post, but I want to 
point out that there is one big difference between Scabbers and Pig. 
Crookshanks approved of him. In the last chapter Ron gave the owl to 
Crookshanks for a "sniffling test", and Pigwidgeon passed. ;-)