Evil!Lupin, and Draco (was Kneazel?)

[Juliet]

No: HPFGUIDX 53216

As Pipping quoted from FBAWTFT:
"The Kneazle has an uncanny ability to detect unsavoury or 
suspicious characters and can be relied on to guide its owner 
safely home if they are lost." FBAWTFT p. 24.

And then, Pippin elaborated on that with:
>>If we agree that Sirius is *not* unsavoury or suspicious, then 
there is canon that Crookshanks lacked the ability to detect it, 
since "It was a while before he trusted me." PoA ch 19. >>


Hmm...I don't follow you here.  If Sirius was *not* unsavory or 
suspicious, then WHY did Crookshanks not trust him in the beginning?  
Crookshanks suspected him, knew he wasn't a dog, and went after him, 
one could suppose, like he did PeterTheRat.  But Sirius communicated 
what it was he was trying to do, so thus Crookshanks trusted him.  As 
Kneazles are described as intlelligent(FBAWTFT), this isn't out of 
canon.

Pippin:
>>My theory is that Crookshanks can tell when people are 
consciously perpetrating an untruth, but *doesn't * know who is 
untrustworthy or unsavory.>>

Then your theory is negated by the very canon you posted, as it 
specifically states that Kneazles have an uncanny ability to detect 
the unsavory or suspicious.

Pippin:
>>What abrogates his ability to detect 
Evil!Lupin is not the objective truth of Lupin's words, but that 
Evil!Lupin is utterly, purposefully and perfectly sure that 
everything he says is true.>>

Or maybe Crookshanks just doesn't suspect him because, say, Lupin 
isn't evil? ;)  But then again, Crookshanks doesn't seem to be aware 
that Snape is in the room.  Hum.  This doesn't seem right, as Snape 
was hiding under an Invisibility Cloak and eavesdropping- that's 
pretty suspicious and unsavory, if you ask me.  But maybe since 
Crookshanks is only *part* Kneazle, he can only detect these things 
some of the time..?  To elaborate:  He firstly observes the people 
around him and, when he chooses, can concentrate his Kneazle!Ablities 
on that person at a given time..?  Maybe, when HHR and Scabbers 
entered the Magical Menagerie Shop, he fired a Kneazle blast at them 
and then went haywire when he got feedback on Scabbers.  Just a 
thought.

~Aldrea, who remembers fighting against that Evil!Lupin theory...