Mundungus=Crookshanks

[Pat]

No: HPFGUIDX 109760

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "twobeaglegirl" <cquinn at m...> 
wrote:
> 2 beagles:
>snip<When Mrs. Figg and Harry 
> are dragging Dugley back home after the dementor attack and Mrs. 
> Figg is cursing Mundungus Fletcher, he apparates into the picture.  
> He is described as, "a squat, unshaven man in a tattered 
> overcoat....He had SHORT BANDY LEGS, LONG SCRAGGLY GINGER HAIR, and 
> bloodshot baggy eyes that gave him the doleful look of a basset 
> hound." (American version, p. 22, hardback) Crookshanks is often 
> described as a ginger cat with bandy legs and a flat face.
> Now I know that Crookshanks is described (by Sirius) as being the 
> most intelligent animal of his kind, and Mundungus is a bit of an 
> idiot, but does anyone else think that the similarities their 
> description is a little odd?  Could Mundungus be Crookshanks?

Pat here:

I've noticed the same thing, but can't figure out the connection 
between Crookshanks and Mundungus.  Maybe there just isn't one.  The 
other person who is always described as being cat-like is Ginny, who 
also has ginger hair.  And in COS, when Mrs. Norris is attacked, she 
reacts to the news, leading Ron to say that she loves cats. (Of 
course, her reaction is really something else.)

But in GOF, at the end, she is curled up at the end of Hermione's 
bed; in OotP, she is down on the floor playing with Crookshanks; and 
in at least one other instance, Ginny is curled up, cat-like.

All that leads me to think that they are just ways to describe the 
different characters, or they are possibly red herrings.  After all, 
aren't Mundungus and Crookshanks in the room at the same time at 
least once?  That would rule out the chance that they are one in the 
same.

Pat