In the summer of 1993, in Diagon Alley, when Ron Weasley took his pet rat Scabbers to the Magical Menagerie because he looked ill, the witch behind the counter suggested Rat Tonic. Before Ron could pay, Scabbers was attacked and chased out of the shop by Crookshanks. Ron and Harry Potter followed.
Scabbers used to belong to Ron's older brother, Percy. Although the first years' shopping list only mentions cats, owls and toads as allowed pets, there does not seem to be any problem with Ron bringing him along to Hogwarts.
Why was Ron given Scabbers instead of an owl in the book?
In the Harry Potter series, it is stated that Ron Weasley was given Scabbers the rat instead of an owl because owls were more expensive. This is a reflection of the Weasley family's financial status. Scabbers was a long-held pet in the Weasley family, previously belonging to Percy, before being passed down to Ron.
Afterwards, Crookshanks independently sought Scabbers out, causing the rat to seek hiding places. When Scabbers took off to hide in Rubeus Hagrid's hut, Ron was convinced that Crookshanks had eaten him.
After framing Sirius Black for the crimes of betraying James and Lily Potter and murdering twelve muggles, Pettigrew went into hiding in his Animagus form, and disguised himself as a rat named Scabbers. He came into the possession of Percy Weasley, who eventually handed him down to his younger brother Ron.
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What did Ron's spell turn Scabbers yellow?
Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow was the incantation of a most likely nonsensical and non-existent spell fabricated by George Weasley that could supposedly change Ron Weasley's pet rat Scabbers's fur colour to yellow, but did not have such effect.
If you read the books, then you'll recall no one knew Scabbers was Pettigrew EXCEPT Sirius Black and later Remus Lupin. Why? Because they were the only ones who knew Peter was an unregistered Animagus whose form was a rat.
At some point during the year, Crookshanks met Sirius Black in his Animagus form, the stray dog mistaken by Harry for the Grim. He immediately trusted Sirius, meeting with him on the Hogwarts grounds several times and stealing the passwords to Gryffindor Tower from Neville Longbottom to help him get into the castle.
In 1993, Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban after seeing a picture of Pettigrew's rat form in a Daily Prophet article about the Weasley family's trip to Egypt.
Minerva had become an Animagus by the age of seventeen, being taught by Professor Dumbledore, who made a note within The Tales of Beedle the Bard to explain for her that, while Animagi were usually people who sought to avoid punishment when they broke the law, she merely became one to further her studies in ...
That's because what he wanted was to turn a rat yellow, but Scabbers wasn't a rat. Scabbers was actually, as we know, Peter Pettigrew, an unregistered animagus hiding out as the Weasley's pet rat.
Pettigrew hesitated for a few seconds, something his enchanted silver hand interpreted as weakness. This brief moment of mercy caused his silver hand to turn against him, ultimately strangling him to death.
Hermione Granger's cat in Harry Potter is named Crookshanks. Crookshanks is a distinctive-looking half-Kneazle, half-cat hybrid with a squashed face and a talent for detecting untrustworthy individuals.
Arnold - A small, purple pygmy puff, Arnold is the beloved pet of Ginny Weasley. She buys Arnold from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes and he is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Why was Ron Weasley allowed to bring a rat to Hogwarts? The instructions given to Harry stated that first-years were allowed to bring an owl or a cat or a toad. Scabbers was technically a hand me down from his older brother so Ron was stuck with him.
Either through eavesdropping or being deliberately told, Draco knows that Sirius could turn into a black dog and uses the information to torment Harry.
Werewolves might be dangerous to humans, but they don't attack other animals; so Lupin's friends found a way to stay together as a kind of pack. James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs.
Sirius Black is introduced in the third Harry Potter installment as the Prisoner of Azkaban, a dark and menacing figure feared by the Wizarding World almost as much as Voldemort himself. Everyone believes he's a mass murderer who betrayed Harry Potter's parents to the Dark Side.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Ron revealed he was frightened of spiders. 'You wouldn't like them either if you'd been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs…' he says to Hermione, about the time Fred turned his teddy bear into a giant spider.
Several years later, however, Hermione was forced to alter her parents' memories and give them new identities as Wendell and Monica Wilkins, to protect them from the Death Eaters. After the Second Wizarding War ended, Hermione found Mr Granger and his wife in Australia and returned their memories.
Until the climax of Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin believed Sirius Black was guilty of murdering 12 Muggles, betraying Lily and James Potter, and killing Peter Pettigrew. He eventually discovered the truth — that Sirius was innocent, and the very much alive Peter was the traitor.
Lupin didn't know Peter had survived. He was like everyone sure that Sirius had obliterated Peter in their duel. He only recognized Peter when Sirius insisted that Peter was the one who killed all those muggles, then he cut of his finger and ran of. “All that was left from him was one finger”.
Why didn't the Weasleys see Peter Pettigrew on the map?
Unless Fred and George were watching Ron sleep on the map (which would be creepy), they wouldn't have noticed Pettigrew. It's only possible to see a human changed in his animagus form if you know the person is one. Therefore: Remus saw Peter on the map, he also saw Sirius. Harry DIDN'T see either.
