Hermione and Crookshanks

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 35941

At 06:32 PM 3/1/02 -0500, Laura wrote:
>  It *is* pretty unreasonable of Ron to ask Hermione to try to keep 
> Crookshanks away from Scabbers.  What's she supposed to do?  Lock him in 
> her room?  Impossible.  Every time someone opened the door the cat would 
> have gone streaking out

The cat is her responsibility.  I don't think it was at all unreasonable of 
Ron to ask her to keep her cat under control.  For the smartest witch of 
her grade, she shows an amazing stupidity in this case.  The darn cat even 
follows her into the boys' room.  She makes little effort to do anything to 
control the beast.  Surely, the smartest witch of her grade should be able 
to make up some kind of spell that would keep him in her room or perhaps 
exclude him from the boys' side of the tower.  Nope.  Not buying that one.

Catherine in California