CrookShanks

[naama]

No: HPFGUIDX 7818

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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

Crookshanks has to be even more special than that. Pets in the wizard 
world are all magical (well, most, Scabbers was thought to have no 
powers). When Sirius was talking of "his kind" I'm pretty sure he 
meant magical cats kind, not muggle cats. 

Naama