Kneazel?

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53152

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Petra Pan 
<ms_petra_pan at y...> wrote:
> Heidi:
> > Does the fact that Crookshanks
> > doesn't react negatively to Draco
> > indicate that he is neither
> > unsavory nor suspicious, and if so,
> > what does that mean for his
> > character and characterization in
> > future books?
> 
> Have we actually seen Crookshanks and 
> Draco interact?  In the same place at 
> the same time...ever?  I can't recall.
> 

Draco, Crabbe and Goyle appear at the door of Harry's 
compartment of the Hogwarts Express in Chapter 5 of PoA. 
Crookshanks is last mentioned as sitting on an empty seat. 
Crookshanks doesn't react to Draco, but then he doesn't react to 
Crabbe or Goyle either. 

In fact, that scene could be inserted specifically to establish that 
Crookshanks *doesn't* react to evil-minded people unless they 
are consciously perpetrating an untruth.

Crookshanks also doesn't react to Snape in the Shrieking 
Shack, even when Snape is ranting and threatening to turn  
people over to the Dementors. 

Crookshanks' limited abilities as a lie-detector are, of course, 
absolutely crucial to Evil!Lupin theory, since the whole thing 
depends on an understanding that everything Lupin says in the 
Shack is literally (and only literally) true.

Pippin