I don't want to start a ruckus but, yes, in the Harry Potter books, ferrets were fed to the griffins. J.K. Rowling also had one of the characters turn another into a ferret and bounced him off the walls at Hogwarts. They were major passages in the books, so if the movie stays true to the books, then they'd have the scenes in it. This doesn't mean that ya'll should boycott the movie just because Ms. Rowlings has no love for ferrets...just that you should be aware that some scenes might be unsettling to us ferrety people. [Posted in FML issue 4551]