Harry Potter Familiar

[Ice-Tea-1983]

"Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad" -Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, chapter 5, p67.

Shinjithegoodsharer brings up an excellent point in his story: Chronicles of Potter

Nowhere in the letter does it say that the pet/familiar has to be a housecat ... A Tiger/Lion/Panther/Cheetah etc is a cat, only much larger ... and ferocious ...

Are there other things that could fit under the same concept in the same sentence?

 

[parker]

Doesn't that line say that FIRST years are only aloud to bring toads, cats, and owls?

 

[Ice-Tea-1983]

Doesn't that line say that FIRST years are only aloud to bring toads, cats, and owls?

I quoted directly from the book, but your idea brings up some interesting possibilities for crack fics ... Harry, appearing in his second year with a female basilisk, unintentionally distracting the one under Hogwarts from Riddle's instructions by the desire to reproduce as it hadn't encountered a female in centuries (over a millennia to be safe).

Or bringing in a Nundu in his first year, because it was a cat, and the letter said he could bring one.

The only thing I can recall was limited to First Years, was broomsticks ... they weren't allowed to bring one.

 

[nuclear death frog]

While it would be funny for someone to bring a tiger to Hogwarts and claim it as a pet, I think the general idea behind that restriction is that if you bring an animal, it's to be a small animal.

 

[WannabeKurt]

The Hypno-Toad, duh

 

[Rift120]

Well when I came up with my first disgaea potter thread http://z14.invisionfree.com/The_Fanfiction...wtopic=2790&hl=

(not the one with Etan and Flonne as teh devil and angel advisors for Harry)

I theorized that the Nekomatta monster would count as a 'cat' familar... and possibly make young harry VERY popular with the older male students who want to 'play' with his pet