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Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat grey rat, which was asleep. ‘His name’s Scabbers and he’s useless, he hardly ever wakes up. Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a Prefect, but they couldn’t aff– I mean, I got Scabbers instead.’ Ron’s ears went pink. He seemed to think he’d said too much, because he went back to staring out of the window. Harry didn’t think there was anything wrong with not being able to afford an owl. After all, he’d never had any money in his life until a month ago, and he told Ron so, all about having to wear Dudley’s old clothes and never getting proper birthday presents. This seemed to cheer Ron up. ‘... and until Hagrid told me, I didn’t know anything about being a wizard’  Then they saw some flying shadows and it started to feel cold. The windows got frozen and they broke and the train suddenly stopped, Scabbers flown away. - Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! - they heard the rat screaming. Ron looked o