[HPforGrownups] Mrs. Norris

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 46735



vincentjh wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been on the list for a while but I'm falling behind the
> discussion and don't know if this has been covered. So I'll just
> throw the questions out--
> 
> Why's Mrs. Norris petrified(sp.)? Why petrify a cat? Is she a threat
> to the plan?
> 
> It's puzzled me since my first reading. And I still cannot find a
> suitable explanation for that. Any idea?
> 
> VJH

Its unlikely the basilisk can control who its powers work on. ANYONE
that looks in its eyes (is dead) or even the reflection of its eyes
(petrified) is affected, even animals. Bet spiders, who have eight eyes
after all, would flee in terror of it.. The cat might have also been 'a
warning' that worse was yet to come and was an easy target or got nailed
by accident and made a handy 'message'.

Jazmyn