Question: Crookshanks and Mundungus

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 74059

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> kytakyta wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi! New member here, been a HP fan since CoS though... :) 
> > > 
> > > Question: Both Crookshanks and Mundungus are described as 
> > > having "bandy" legs and having "ginger" and "scraggly" hair. 
<SNIP>

James Redmont wrote:
I don't remember Mundungus being described that way (though I'm sure 
you're probably right, I just don't remember), but the thing with 
Crookshanks is that he's part Kneazle.  You can read about Kneazles 
in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". <SNIP>


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