Harry Potter Cards and Inexplicably Starry Scabbers

[stuttermoan]

Today, while cleaning my room, I found a box of cards from the Harry Potter Trading Card Game. I remember finding them in a store a few years ago and buying them with the intention of scanning images. Here are a few with particularly interesting character depictions.


Snape, looking uncharacteristically happy:



Lily with frogspawn:



The Dursleys, looking snooty:



Percy, most likely experiencing pwnage at the hands of the twins:



The Trio, along with inexplicably starry Scabbers:



Scabbers is pictured again by himself here, both starry and blinged out:



In both images, he's got black stars on his fur. A few years back, laverinth posted about this weirdness. There is absolutely nothing in the books about stars on Scabbers. The only reason I can dredge up is that, over a decade ago, some marketing person thought he looked too plain and decided to jazz him up to appear more magical. Seriously, if anyone has more info about starry Scabbers, please share it!

Comments

[laverinth.livejournal.com]

Wow. I can't believe you even remembered that post. XD Or did you find it through a search?

[stuttermoan.livejournal.com]

A bit of both, actually. I remembered that someone had mentioned the unexplained black stars on plush Scabbers as a tie-in to a challenge, but I couldn't remember where or when. I probably saw your post listed on a newsletter somewhere. Gosh, fandom time sure travels funny, because when I found the cards and remembered your post, I thought to myself, "Hm, I read something about that the other day..." as if four years hadn't gone by since then.