" You know, I think the ends of Scabbers' whiskers are a bit lighter, " said Harry, trying to take Ron's mind off houses. " So what do your oldest brothers do now that they've left, anyway? "
But there is a lot we don't know about cute little Whiskers, like where her cuddly, domestic ancestors came from, and when she evolved from wild animals.
He crouched down beside Harry, who saw, through the infinitesimal gap left between his swollen eyelids, a face covered in matted gray hair and whiskers, with pointed brown teeth and sores in the corners of his mouth.
They were plastered with mud some with blood too - and their ears were down and their whiskers drooped and their tails dragged in the grass, and their leader piped on his slender pipe a melancholy tune.