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Re: Fascinating ferret fact
Posted By: Silon, on host 199.174.22.150
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2001, at 10:35:26
In Reply To: Re: Fascinating ferret fact posted by Speedball on Tuesday, October 10, 2000, at 21:35:24:

> > > 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
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> 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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> if you haven't read all the Potter Books here is a
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> Ron tried to turn his rat, Scabbers yellow. And Scabbers turned out to an evil Wizard in disguies.
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> J.K. Rowlings puts a lot if work into her names.
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> Speed'I want to go to Hogwartz'ball

Isn't that also evidence that Ron will be killed by Wormtail?

Si"That was not a spoiler for me, I've read all the books multiple times"lon