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[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 101983

Valky:

Also I will be investigating Hermiones few interactions with Mrs 
Norris in the books to scour for more.

Eustace_Scrubb:
> 
> A Hermione/Hermes connection would make this yet more interesting. 
> I'll look forward to what you discover.

Hi Eustace,
Back from my investigation into Hermione re Norris in COS. What I 
have discovered is that immediately following Mrs Norris' 
unfortunate experience with the Basilisk Hermione begins reading
 
!everything in the library! 

of course this is in order for her to learn something about the 
Chamber of Secrets itself and she is most certainly preoccupied with 
this matter during the reading. There are two interesting things 
that caught my attention about this quite subtle story in the plot 
of COS.

One is that Hermione could not read Hogwarts a History at this time 
she had left her copy at home and all the library copies were gone. 
Accordingly at this time she couldn't possibly have put together any 
clues she may have found about Mr Norris identity with the History 
of Hogwarts. 

Second Mrs Norris was the first victim of the Basilisk 

AND 

Hermione had no information at her disposal about the History of 
Hogwarts, hence she would have *necessarily* because of her 
exceptional curiosity and intelligence, "gone around the horse" so 
to speak to investigate what had happened to Mr Norris. I believe 
that this would almost certainly include an investigation of CATS. 

Presumably if there was something not catlike about Mrs Norris 
Hermione would likely have come across it in her studies. Because it 
was irrelevant to the Chamber of Secrets and the present danger I 
would expect Hermione banked any information like this for later 
reference because as we know Hermione forgets nothing.

Curiously she finds herself an interestingly non cat, catlike pet, 
altough she intends to buy an owl, in book three. 

I have a great deal of suspicion that this is a clue to Mrs Norris 
true identity. Hermione chose a catlike creature that was not a cat 
almost as soon after she was able to have some reckoning that Mrs 
Norris was interesting as could be possible. ie post the Chamber of 
Secrets when she came across the information post her first time at 
home since COS began and therefore post being able to read Hogwarts 
a History (Hermione did not go home for the christmas holidays in 
COS)and post seeing the Crookshanks for the first time who was 
recognisably to "the observant" aka Hermione not a cat but something 
entirely superior. Something has clicked in Hermione the third cog 
definately turned when she saw Crookshanks and subsequently chose to 
buy him. 

Ok this is a long and puzzling post that I hope you can make sense 
of. 

What I am trying to say is if that third cog turned finally, when 
Hermione saw Crookshanks, then maybe she chose him as her familiar 
for the same reasons that she realised applied to Mrs Norris.      


And if so, what does Hermione wanting to own Crookshanks tell us 
about Mrs Norris?