Question: Crookshanks and Mundungus

[James Redmont]

No: HPFGUIDX 77211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
> 
> Now me (mtwelovett): 
> Mundungus was discribed as such, in one of the #12 Grimmauld 
scenes,
> but I don't have the book here with me at present (maybe the one at
> Christmas time when he brings the stuff to Fred and George and 
refuses
> to give up his coat--Mrs Weasley's vision chaper I think.). I 
thought
> about this discription some too, and wondered if maybe Mundungus 
is an
> animangus as a cat/kneazle that maybe lives with Mrs Figg since 
they
> seem to have a closer relationship. I don't think Mundungus is
> Crookshanks, but could have similar markings as a "cat".
> <SNIP> 
> 
> <Now, A.G.>
> Mundungus' description is early on in OoP-pg 22 (American edition)
> "He had short bandy legs, long straggly ginger hair, and bloodshot 
> baggy eyes that gave him the doleful look of a basset hound..."
> Atropos Gryffin

Me:  

Maybe he is, but I know for sure they are not one and the same.  
They are both in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place on page 82 of the US 
version.

James