Cats (was Re: COS clues)

[Antbee78]

No: HPFGUIDX 83082

>Laurasia wrote:
> 
> That's an intersting point! And, remember in OotP when Harry is 
> taking the Occumency lessons and one of the visions he has is of 
> Hermione covered in fur, when she was turned into a cat? I thought 
> that was extremely bizzare- mostly because we never saw Harry have 
> a  vision of Hermione petrified. I would assume that Harry was much 
> more distraught when Hermione nearly *died* rather than when the 
>Polyjuice Potion backfired. So, why bring up the fact that Hermione 
>turned into a cat in OotP? Unless it's significant...

AntBee responded:

I thought that scene was just significant because Harry was trying to 
cover up the fact that he and his friends had in fact stolen 
Boomslang skin from Snape. Snape had suspected Harry of doing so 
in "GoF", but it turned out to be Crouch Jr., who was actually 
stealing from Snape; however, that of course, doesn't mean that Harry 
was not guilty of stealing from Snape, he's just never been found out 
yet until the Occlumency lessons.

>Laurasia wrote:
> There's something weird going on with people and their cats for 
> sure... Also- note the seemingly large amount of cats with names 
> starting with 'Mr' or Mrs.' Mrs Norris, Mr Tibbles, Mr Prentice 
(Figg 
> mentions him at the start of OotP, there's no actual proof he's a 
> cat, but seeing as she doesn't mind him seeing Harry with his wand 
> out, he couldn't be a Muggle- so I'm just assuming he's a cat). Are 
> they really people who have been unrepairably tranfigured into cat 
> form? Any ideas?

AntBee replied:
Sorry, I don't have any theories about cats, just more questions like 
why did Ginny Weasley have so many cat descriptions in "OotP", and if 
this is connected at all with what is important about cats that we're 
supposed to find out later on.

-AntBee