[HPforGrownups] Re: Crookshanks reprised: Observations and Etymology

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 16681

Indigo wrote:

> > One more observation that puts me firmly in the Crookshanks is at
> > least part Kneazle (or, I'm beginning to think more likely a Kneazle
> > who is part normal cat):  his name.
> >
> > A shank is a straight and narrow nail. [Merriam-Webster]
> >
> > Crook - Shanks = Nail the crooks!

I *think* Crookshanks is an old English nickname meaning someone with 
crooked legs.  Can anyone confirm?  Though I like "Nail the crooks"!:)

Haggridd wrote:

>Wonderful textual investigation, thank you!  Wouldn't your citations
>equally support the possibility that Crookshanks is an unregisterd
>Animagus, though?

I don't think he can be, because Sirius Black says of him "He's the most 
intelligent of his kind I ever met" - given that Sirius *is* an unregistered 
animagus, would he say "his kind" of another one?  And since in that scene 
in the Shrieking Shack, unregistered animagi are not exactly thin on the 
ground, it might have been a good time for Crookie to reveal himself, but he 
doesn't. (OK, OK, there may be reasons as yet unknown...)



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