Animagi, WAS significant Trevor/ Crookshanks

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No: HPFGUIDX 144657

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miles" <miles at m...> wrote:
>
> I think we will see another animagus in book 7. Maybe some of you 
would say
> "not another one, we've seen enough animagi".

 
> I never thought of Trevor. But yes, maybe he is not what he seems 
to be. But
> he didn't do anything suspicious up to now, so maybe he is just a 
running
> gag, a means to characterize Neville.
> But Crookshanks? Maybe it is really just the Kneazle half of him 
that
> enabled him to recognise both Peter as "bad" and Sirius as "good". 
But I'm
> not so sure. Crookshanks chasing Scabbers - likely for a cat, most 
likely
> for a Kneazle. Crookshanks being friend of Sirius' dog form: 
surprising for
> a cat, possible for a Kneazle. But Crookshanks shielding Sirius in 
the
> Shrieking Shack, protecting him with his own life? A bit too much 
for a
> Kneazle, maybe.

> We considered Dumbledore's speech to Draco: "we can hide you more 
completely
> than you can possibly imagine", and we thought of Regulus hiding 
as Mrs
> Filch.
> Regulus is Sirius brother. Read PoA again and keep the theory in 
your mind:
> Regulus, younger brother of Sirius, hides as Crookshanks. It could 
explain
> many things.

Marianne:

I've often wondered why we've been given little views of Crookshanks 
and Sirius interacting in such a way that shows Crookshanks' 
affection for Sirius.  In OoP, when Harry first arrives and is 
sitting in the kitchen talking with Sirius, Crookshanks jumps on 
Sirius's lap and curls up.  Later in Chap 17, when Sirius talks via 
fire to Harry in the Gryff Common Room, Crookshanks purrs loudly and 
tries to get close to Sirius, despite the heat from the fire.  
Crookshanks is around plenty of other people a lot of the time, but 
it's only with Sirius, IIRC, that JKR has illustrated the animal's 
fondness for a wizard/witch. 

Whether this translates into Crookshanks being Regulus...I don't 
know. Does he just happen to be in the pet store and purchased by 
Hermione at just the right point in time to be at Hogwarts when 
fuguitive Sirius is running around?  It seems like too big of a 
coincidence to me. 

And what would Regulus/Crookshank be doing there?  Let's say Regulus 
has been someone that DD has been able to hide all these years.  
Does DD not know of Regulus' animagus form?  If not, why not?  
Wouldn't he want to know where this hidden person is?  If he does 
know, is he using Regulus to try to find Sirius and protect Harry?  
If so, Regulus apparently has followed the Lupin path and does 
nothing to aid in the capture of his fugitive brother.  Or, is 
Regulus simply passing on information to DD, who does nothing to 
interfere with how things will play out, or who uses this 
information to subtly direct how things will play out?  Which then 
takes us too close to Puppetmaster!DD for my comfort. 

OTOH, I reread the section in HBP where DD talks about Harry's 
inheriting 12 GP. People, including me, have used that to dismiss 
the possibility of Regulus being alive. But, maybe we're reading too 
much into this inheritance thing.  Dumbledore says merely 
that "Black family tradition" decreed the inheritance went to the 
next male heir. There is nothing to indicate that this is some sort 
of magical contract that "knows" whether a real heir is still 
alive.  Sirius could have simply believed that Regulus was dead, and 
thus drew up his will naming Harry as heir.  The potential 
complications on the will arose from whether the house itself might 
have some sort of protection on it that would only allow a pureblood 
Black to own it.  And, evidently, as was shown when Harry's orders 
to Kreacher were obeyed, the house didn't have these protections. 

I guess I like the idea of Regulus being alive. But, the final thing 
that gives me pause is what JKR said in one of her post-OoP things 
(World Book Day chat??) when someone asked if we'd hear more from 
Regulus.  Her response was something like "Er..he's been pretty 
quiet because he's dead."

Marianne