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

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 20011

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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. 

Arguably.

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. 

The human characters didn't know Wormtail was a *guy* at *all*, let 
alone a bad one, until the very end.

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.

But I don't know if I'd call it heroic. 

Neville caught holy hell for 'losing' the list, and he never did any 
such thing; it was stolen.

It could be said that Crookshanks thought Sirius' plight warranted 
him getting in and getting Pettigrew a higher priority over Neville 
remembering his passwords...

It could also be said that Crookshanks might've done it to teach 
Neville the lesson that he should work to improve his memory.

So, arguably heroic.

Indigo