A good description of Crookshanks?

[macloudt]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "njbrobinson" <nbr1 at e...> wrote:
><I am wondering if anyone knows of a good drawing or description of 
> Crookshanks.  From PoA, chapter 4, p 60 (US edition), we 
have "ginger 
> fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged and 
> its face looked grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run 
> headlong into a brick wall."  There are also multiple references in 
> PoA to a "bottlebrush" tail. 
> 
> I am asking because I would like to find a stuffed animal that 
> resembles Crookshanks as much as possible>

I can't help you with the good drawing bit, but in my mind 
Crookshanks looks like a ginger Persian-type cat.  My friend owns 
such a moggie.  He--that cat that is!--is probably not pedigree but 
definately has some Persian traits as he looks like a walking ginger-
coloured oversized fluffy duster on a stick (minus the stick of 
course).  Did that make sense to you?  I have no idea what that 
sentence meant...anyway this cat's legs are not really bowlegged but 
look short and squat because of all the fur, and of course the face 
looks squashed.  *And* the tail definately looks like a bottlebrush!  
So perhaps a ginger-coloured Persian cat stuffie would do the trick 
if a proper Crookshanks toy can't be found.

Sorry if this post made no sense whatsoever.  I've been up for 
several hours but am only halfway through my first cup of coffee, so 
the little grey cells, which are feeble to begin with, haven't kicked 
in yet.  Rereading this post, I realise that I most likely will spend 
the rest of the day spewing nonsense and confusing even more people.  

Never mind...

Mary Ann
(who has a feeling it's going to be a loooong day)