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[amelofbrockley]

No: HPFGUIDX 42131

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Julian Robinson <pen at p...> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 06:57 , LD wrote:
> 
> >  Thinking about it, what kind of a
> > name is "Mrs Norris" for a cat anyway?
> 
> A Jane Austen reference?  'Mrs Norris' is after all the perfect 
name for 
> a spiteful, mean-spirited cat.
> 
> Pen

umm. Could it be that Mrs Norris is a dramatic device? Ms Rowling 
does seem to be good at putting in things just because they read 
well, and anyway, the strange power of ordinary cats is a classic 
fantasy trope cf. Greebo in the Discworld books. But then again, H.P. 
Lovecraft did posit that cats were in fact a benign and hyper-
powerful race from the stars who protected mankind from various mis-
formed nasties, because they happened to like us. SO, I reckon Mrs 
Norris could be the undercover hero of the cycle (what is it with 
authors and their cats?)

"amelofbrockley"