squibs and cats

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 64050

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eldee_2600" <eldee_2600 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beldasnoop" 
<beldasnoop at y...> 
> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mugglemonkee" 
> <pooka2407 at a...> 
> > wrote:
> > > What's up with the squib/cat relationship?
> > > 
> > > Filch & Mrs. Norris
> > > Figg & Mr. Tibbles
> > > 
> > > Does anyone else find this odd/interesting?
> > 
> > Interesting.  Mrs. Figg has lots of other cats, too.  I wonder if 
> it 
> > means anything. Maybe Squibs in general have a certain longing 
for 
> > things magical, and the cats serve as a sort of emotional link to 
> the 
> > Wizarding World.
> 
> It's not just that they own cats, they seem to understand them too. 
> Theres'a been a lot said about the strange way that Filch is almost 
> able to talk to Mrs Norris. And how on earth did Figg manage to 
send 
> Mr Tibbles off to spy on Harry? More to the point, what sort of 
> special cat is Mr Tibbles to understand and obey that command, and 
> then alert her when Mundungus Fletcher took off?
> 
> -ElDee

Here's another question - why not snowball, fluffy, ginger, sooty, or 
the 100's of other "normal" cat names... Why "Mr" Tibbles and "Mrs" 
Norris?

Is this some hint a former life - are these "cats" really witches and 
wizards that, due to some unfortunate magic, have been transformed 
into these animals from which there is no going back.

But why live with squibbs? Maybe they were squibs to begin with which 
is why they cant transform back - hence they live with squibbs 
because it is with them they are most comfortable?

What if the only real power that squibbs have is a form of 
Parsletongue, but instead of snakes it's cats they can talk to. Then, 
because they can communicate with their cats as if they were people, 
they give them more people-like names (Mr & Mrs, rather than 
tinkerbell).

I'm putting this question in with the speculation regarding the Evans 
Boy that Dudley has been beating up being related to Lily and Petunia.

Cheers

Pickle Jimmy