On the second floor, Percy’s room is as tidy as can be, with everything kept as clean and neat as is possible in a house shared by up to nine people at a time. The rat cage sits on the dresser against the wall, on the other side of Percy’s bed. Silent as the grave, Harry creeps around the bed to the dresser and the cage. Pettigrew’s ugly little tail sticks out from under the small house he sleeps in. Harry paralyzes and sedates him before he even opens the cage. He fishes the rat out from inside the thin bars then turns around and creeps back out just as silently.