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Percy nodded. "Thank you," he said, gratefully. "I don't know what else to say about the matter, except the obvious awkward stages, which then settles to a dull acceptance." Percy grimaced. "That sounded rather worse than what I intended. I'm far more disturbed by Pettigrew, however, and something you wrote in the journals made sense." He leaned upon his rake and stared off into the distance. "When I learned that Scabbers was a human, I was revolted, but didn't want to deal with the implications of what happened, and so I buried myself in my studies until I'd forgotten it. But ever since then, I'd been adverse to owning a pet, except for owls, which aren't so much pets as they are delivery systems."