Crookshanks

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 10190


> 
> Just to disagree here, Sirius refers to Crookshanks as being a cat 
twice in
> PoA.
> 
> The following two quotes are from PoA Ch 19:
> "This cat isn't mad. He's [Crookshanks] the most intelligent of his 
kind
> I've ever met."
> "This cat - Crookshanks, did you call him?"
> 
> Both quotes clearly use the word cat to describe Crookshanks.

Granted, but I would argue that they don't necessarily mean that he 
is an actual cat, as in domesticated feline, as in pet cat. After 
all, any cat-like creature is referred to as a cat, not just house 
cats. I like to keep the possiblity open that Crookshanks is 
something more than just one of the many magical cats around (and 
there are plenty, apparently, judging by the number of them mentioned 
as being on Platform 9 and 3/4 and other places) Cats are very 
common. Crookshanks is very UNcommon. 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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