Neville and Crookshanks (was: Percy Weasley (and Ron)

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No: HPFGUIDX 20009

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:

> He certainly didn't because he didn't lose the list.  Crookshanks
> stole it from his bedside.  Neville assumed he'd lost it because
> he always loses things.  
> 
> Now the question is: is Crookshanks evil?  Or is he just your
> typical run-of-the-mill cat-type evil?

Crookshanks wasn't being evil at all; he was being heroic. He stole 
the list of passwords on purpose to give it to Padfoot so that 
Padfoot could get into the dorm and catch Wormtail, because 
Crookshanks is a good judge of character and understood that Padfoot 
was a good guy and Wormtail was a bad guy long before any of the 
human characters did. Nowdays it is generally believed that the 
reason Crookshanks is a good judge of character is because of being 
part Kneazle (being part Kneazle was confirmed in a JKR interview). 
"The Kneazle has an uncanny ability to detect unsavory or suspicious 
characters" says FB.