TiP breakup(s)/Mobiliarbus/Name of Padfoot

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:

> Katherine Briggs, in An Encyclopedia of Fairies, has an entry for 
> Padfoot, classing it as a bogey or bogey-beast common about Leeds.
> It is said to be a death-warning, and to take various shapes, 
> including a =white= dog with big saucer eyes.

If that was JKR's source for the name, then the Marauders must have 
realised that Sirius's big black dog form looked like a Grim, and 
either made a joke on the similarity between a Grim and a Padfoot, or 
else the wizarding folk know that Grims are the same as Padfoots, 
except the stupid Muggles got the color of the Padfoot wrong. I don't 
recall Grims being in FB, altho' there is a reference to the Ministry 
keeping a pack of white dogs on purpose to chase off some 
magico-beastly pest.