[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: 'Dung' and Crookshanks etc.

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No: HPFGUIDX 65801


>1) Their personalities are nothing alike.
>2) It's a bit of an old plotline, no? Unregistered Animagus?

Not only that, but JKR said in an interview (I can't remember which one 
though), that Crookshanks is part Kneazle, which is a cat-like creature in 
her book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that is especially 
intelligent. So I doubt he's an Animagus.

Seeing as how he's part Kneazle, what about Crookshanks would him being an 
Animagus help to explain? Being part Kneazle would explain his intelligence.

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>I don't think I need to remind anyone how instrumental Crookshanks
>was to Sirius during PoA. And, yes, of course I've entertained the
>thought that Crookshanks was an Animagus, especially seeing as how
>antisocial he was in the pet-shop to anyone who tried to buy him
>before literally throwing himself at Hermione.

IIRC, he actually throws himself at Ron, trying to attack Scabbers and not 
Hermione in the shop in PoA.

>And, though I don't
>find it incredible that Wizards could learn how to talk to animals,
>I'm pretty sure we'd have heard more about it if was a big thing.
>Hagrid, for one, would have perfected it, and we've heard nothing of
>it. How, then, was it possible for Sirius to communicate such things
>to Crookshanks as 'Go to Gryffindor Tower and find a way for me to
>enter it, remembering that it requires a password'?

I was wondering about that. Of course we have wizards who can talk to 
snakes (Parselmouths), but we don't hear about any other way that wizards 
can communicate with animals. Yet it seems to happen fairly often, even 
with Squibs. Filch and Figg both seem to have strong connections with their 
cats that can't be easily explained. Then again, a lot of people in real 
life feel their pets know what they're thinking and feeling, perhaps it's 
just an extreme version of that? Perhaps that would work for moods and 
such, but the kind of communication Sirius did with Crookshanks in PoA 
always had me wondering.

~dream