CrookShanks

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 7791

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Snuffles MacGoo <msmacgoo at o...> 
> wrote:
> > Crookshanks is an ordinary (thought smart) cat, Sirius says so 
(oh 
> I love the 
> > opportunity to quote) "This cat isn't mad .... He's the most 
> intelligent of his 
> > kind I've ever met." p267 PoA hardcover aust (british) ed.

That doesn't say that Crookshanks is a cat. It says that he's the 
most intelligent OF HIS KIND, whatever that is. I'm not convinced 
he's a cat. In some ways, he's an extension of Hermione in the same 
way Mrs. Norris is an extension of Filch (for example when he stares 
at Harry and Ron the way Hermione would have when they're cheating on 
their Divination homework). If he is a cat, he's a magical cat, which 
is NOT an ordinary cat at all.

Okay, so all cats are SORT of magical in their own jellicle way, but 
I'm talking about enchanted, overtly magical.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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