Crookshanks and Mundungus

[Adesa]

No: HPFGUIDX 125478



So I'm re-reading OotP again, and I was wondering...

Crookshanks is described throughout the books (repeatedly, I believe) 
as "bandy-legged" with long, messy ginger hair. I know that JKR has 
said he's part kneazle, but I read this passage today:

"There was a loud crack and a strong smell of mingled drink and stale 
tobacco filled the air as a squat, unshaven man in a tattered 
overcoat materialized right in front of them. He had short bandy 
legs, long straggly ginger hair, and bloodshot baggy eyes that gave 
him the doleful look of a basset hound; he was also clutching a 
silvery bundle that Harry recognized at once as an Invisibility 
Cloak." (OotP, US vers., Chap. 2, pg. 22)

Now I'm sure this has probably been discussed here before, so forgive 
me for misssing it in the archives. But JKR has always been *very* 
careful about her word choice. The similarities of Crookshanks' and 
Dung's descriptions can't be coincidental, can they? What does this 
mean?

Adesa, who's always surprised about what new details she picks up 
with each re-reading.