[HPforGrownups] Re: Kneazles Oriental?

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 83439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Maria Gromova" <gromm at c...> 
wrote:
> > Constance Vigilance:
> > My cat is
> > huge and ginger-colored with a bottle brush tail and he's a Maine
> > Coon. 
<Snip>
> > FYI - in the first two movies, they used Maine Coons for Mrs. 
Norris.
> 
> Maria here:
> No, I quoted Lexicon (quoting FB). Full kneazles are small, with a 
> tail like a lion's. Crookshanks is PART KNEAZLE, the OTHER part in 
> him  IS Maine Coon,I think.


Pip!Squeak:
I'd be incredibly surprised if Crookshanks were part Maine Coon, 
because Maine Coons were only imported to the UK relatively 
recently. They are now being bred in the UK, but they tend to be 
rather expensive. 

I think TMTMNBN 1 and 2 used a Maine Coon *because* they're not 
common in the UK. They have (to us) an unusual look, very suitable 
for a magic cat.

Crookshanks may possibly be a real mixture - part kneazle, part 
ordinary British moggy (common-or-garden cat), and part Scottish 
Wildcat. Wildcats have bottlebrush tales, and are, err... wild. 
They're the last undomesticated breed of cat in the UK. I think it 
would suit Crookshank's nature to be partly descended from an 
undomesticated breed. 

But you can find huge ginger tom cats with bottlebrush tails in the 
Muggle UK - the British cat is often quite large, and ginger toms 
are common. So Crookshanks may be a British moggy/Kneazle cross.

Pip!Squeak