Chapter 8 and 9

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19222

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Nethilia De Lobo <nethilia at y...> wrote:
> Chapter 8: 
> 
> > Discussion Questions:
> > 1) Is Crookshanks chewing a dead spider in front of
> > Ron a message telling
> > him he's on Ron's side?
> 
> Probably. Crookies is a smart kitty. Then again, he
> could just be trying to traumatize Ron ^_~

Late thought:

A _large_ dead spider.  Although I suspect it's just put there
by JKR to freak Ron out with his acranacrophobia (hi, joywitch :-)
since he doesn't like spiders at _all_, even dead, so that he
and Hermione can do their disagreeing-about-Crookshanks bit again,
perhaps it just could be an early clue that Crookshanks has been
exploring in the Forbidden Forest?

(Is that a big deal, anyway, for students' animals - or not?)

I guess that although at this point Crookshanks has it in for
Scabbers, he isn't in league with Sirius Black.

I'm not sure that spiders are palatable, I don't remember our
family cat being very interested in them...

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)