Litter of Werewolves

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 323

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Merriman Vicki" wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" wrote:
> > OMIGOD!  Crookshanks is the child of Minerva McGonagall, 
> > conceived while she > was running around as a kitty!
> 
> I love it!  Minerva gave birth to a persian, pushed in face and 
> everything.

I guess that implies that the father was a Persian --- is such a 
pregnancy 40 days like a cat or 9 monhts like a human?  One train of
thought suggests that nine months of pregnancy, and the difficulty of 
hiding it from her students and explaining it to her friends would 
influence her to remember to go into human form when she goes into 
labor. Another train of thought wonders if it makes a different 
if the father was a full-time cat or an Animagus?

While yet a third train of thought wonders why an English child (or 
writer) would think that a bowlegged cat with a pushed-in (Persian 
style) face is ugly? That's normal for them!

I have learned from my cat books that the British Shorthair is a 
weird looking critter, not at all like a normal cat like American 
Shorthair. THEY LIKE the 'flat' face (like a bulldog! is that why 
they like it, the British bulldog?) and 'cobby' physique, and are 
convinced that 'tabby' means blotch tabby and there's something novel 
about nice normal tiger stripes.

At least one book explained that there was a shortage of alley cats 
in Britain after WWII (I hesitate to speculate that people suffering 
from rationing ATE them) so some people 'recovered' the breed of 
free-roaming British Shorthairs by mixing them with pedigreed 
Persians.