> > In the fantasy novel I just finished reading, the evil king (instead of being slain by one of the heroes) is assassinated by a ferret.
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> > Strange but true.
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> Uh-huh. In this fantasy novel I read recently, there is this character whose name is much like "Running Weasel". Historically (i.e. according to one of his presumed descendants, Kat Weasley) this guy was supposedly a great warlord and a brilliant military strategist, who also never lost a single game of chess. In the end he was said to have been killed by a rat -- one that had been dyed yellow. The rat knocked down a lamp in his house and burnt the place to the ground, killing Running Weasel.
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> Strange but true?
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> Wolf "Weasels, of course, being related to FERRETS" spirit


That is why Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter Novels in named Weasley. He never losses chest and in the first books...

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Ron tried to turn his rat, Scabbers yellow. And Scabbers turned out to an evil Wizard in disguies.

J.K. Rowlings puts a lot if work into her names.

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