Crookshanks

[flying_ford_anglia]

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: Crookshanks
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5532] Re: Crookshanks
Date: 8/1/00 2:01 pm  (ET)

<<I have often had the same thought about Crookshanks.>>
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It seems too obvious to assume that Crookshanks is an unregistered
Animagus and too boring to assume that he is just a regular old cat.

Other possibilities:-

(1) He may have *been* human, but transformed irreversibly into a cat by a
spell (related to the one that turned Draco in to ferret). This is not the
same as being an animagus, because he is unable to change back at will.

(2) He may get transfigured into a human being in one of the later
books. If humans can turn be turned into animals why not the reverse?

(3) He may have been an inanimate object before (I refer again to the
cat made out of a violin in Diana Wynne Jones' "Charmed Life"). Perhaps
something very significant?

(4) He may have specific, feline magical abilities, a bit like those of
the phoenix.

Simon - re your wild theory, imagine Hedwig transformed into alluring
human form! She could 'tawit-tawoo' Harry and as a bonus her head would
turn through 360 degrees just like Linda Blair's!!

Final thing. 'Cruikshank' was a C19 British painter and cartoonist -
the most famous political cartoonist of his day. He also illustrated
Grimm's Fairytales and some Dickens' novels. Not sure why I mention
that. Someone was talking about a Scottish connection earlier.

Neil