Why did Crookshanks 'hate' Scabbers was: HBP - the Unusual Suspects

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 126637


Stickbook wrote: 
>I'm looking forward to finding out more about Crookshanks, with 
>particular regards to his immediate and intense animosity toward 
>Scabbers in the Magical Menagerie (PoA)--if Crookshanks indeed 
>recognized Wormtail in animagus form, then what was the extent of 
>his involvement in VW1?

Karen:  I don't think that he recognised Wormtail in animagus form, 
it's just that kneazles "can detect unsavory or suspicious persons 
very well and will react badly to them".  (As per the book of 
Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, it's also reported on the Lexicon in their Beastiery section.)

Karen