[HPforGrownups] Re: Hermione's new secret?

[fridwulfa]

No: HPFGUIDX 60799


> 
> --- "Brooke" wrote: 

> > Or maybe MgGonagall has been helping her with it... 
> > MgGonagall took a big risk in allowing Hermione to use the time-
> > turner.  
> > 
> > My prediction is, if Hermione does in fact become an animagus, she 
> > will be a cat like McGonagall (& Crookshanks!)
> 
Dumbledad added:
> In fact combining being an animagus with the use of the time-turner, 
> Crookshanks could be Hermione. She'd be an older version keeping an 
> eye out for the younger version. I don't know how she'd have entered 
> the pet shop, but once there she'd have worked to ensure that no-one 
> else bought her, which shouldn't have been too difficult.
> 

Me: (Izaskun)
Well, that's interesting, because rereading PoA I noticed something interesting, when Lupin is explaining how he located H, R, Hr, and Sirius in the Shrieking Shack he says:

"Twenty minutes later, you left Hagrid, and set off back toward the castle. But you were now accompanied by somebody else."

"What?" said Harry. "No, we weren't!"

I couldn't believe my eyes," said Lupin, still pacing, and ignoring Harry's interruption. "I thought the map must be malfunctioning. How could he be with you?" 

"No one was with us!" said Harry.

"And then I saw another dot, moving fast toward you, labeled Sirius Black.... I saw him collide with you; I watched as he pulled two of you into the Whomping Willow --"

"One of us!" Ron said angrily.

"No, Ron," said Lupin. "Two of you."   PoA chp. 17.

He's talking, obviously about Wormtail. Now, the thing is Crookshanks is there too, he helps them get under the Womping Willow, but Lupin doesn't mention him, though we know the map shows animals because Harry can see Mrs Norris on it. 

I think he doesn't mention him because crookshanks is just a cat, Hermione's pet, and he wouldn't bother mentioning  the cat was on the map too, not a crucial point in his explanation. But there could be something else too. 

Anyway, I don't think Crookshanks is Hermione using a time-turner and being under animagus form, because Crookshanks is a male cat, but anyway, maybe there's something more to it. Maybe Crookshanks is Ron under animagus form (that would be fun, his past self hating his animagus self)... don't know. 

Cheers, Izaskun 


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