Crookshanks' gender

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 129325

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brent" <spoonmerlin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, happydogue at a... wrote:
> I've never seen anything to say if 
> crookshanks is male or female, has anyone else?

Hermione is pretty sure from the off, since the first thing she says 
about him is "He's gorgeous, isn't he?" (PoA, UK pb, p50). At that 
point, JKR uses "it", but we already know that she's isn't a cat 
person.  

Later on, though, she uses the masculine pronoun - e.g. in 
Ch8, 'Crookshanks skidded to a halt, crouched low on his bandy legs 
and started making furious swipes beneath the chest of drawers with 
his front paw' (PoA, UK pb, p111), and in Ch 17, 'Crookshanks leapt 
onto Black's chest and settled himself there, right over Black's 
heart.' (PoA, UK pb, p251).

On the related question of <snip>, though, it seems canon is 
silent.  ;-)  So kittens are not ruled out.