Once upon a time in a old cozy five floor burrow house that stood in a large golden meadow in front of a great emerald green wood with fifty foot trees that reached out to the dark blue star studded sky there lived a small creepy fat gray rat named Peter Pettigrew or "Scabbers" the name given by his owners the Weasley's a strange poor family that all had bright ginger hair and more freckles than there is grains of sand on a beach and the most bazaar thing about them was that they were not a typical family that have cars, phones and other possessions that are found in most households. No they rode flying broomsticks that zoomed through the sky and intelligent owls that delivered messages to other people like them, the Weasley's where Wizards, with magical powers that you cant even imagine that could transform a stick into a snake or disappear in a second and re appear half way around in the world, before you can say well, anything.
The Weasley's had Scabbers since Percy the second oldest son in the family's first year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hogwarts was where all the young witches and wizards in the United Kingdom went to to learn how to use and control their powers. Percy found the Rat in an old filthy alleyway just off Diagon Alley, the Wizard shopping area In London where you could buy anything you could ever want from the greatest Broomsticks in the world to chocolate frogs and delicious Butter-beers that warmed your very soul.
When percy brought Peter Pettigrew home it took a long time for Mrs Weasley his mother, to allow him to roam the Burrow and around the gardens and fields later on he became part of the family and was admired by all the Weasley's. Although no-one knew his secret identity and what terrible things he had done in the past.