question about crookshanks

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 185775

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Since, as Montavilla points out, Sirius must be communicating 
> with him in some complex way, I thought at first that he 
> would do so as Padfoot, but it appears that Crookshanks (like 
> Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Figg's cats) understands 
> human language.


zanooda:

Crookshanks may understand human language, but does Sirius understand
cat language :-)? Sirius says that Crookshanks "told" him about Peter
leaving blood stains on Ron's sheet. I think your first assumption was
correct and Sirius communicated with Crookshanks  in animal form (is
there some kind of animal language? Snakes have theirs, after all :-).


> Carol wrote:
 
> I suspect that Crookshanks immediately sensed something wrong with
> Scabbers, either that he was an Animagus or that he was evil 
> or both.


zanooda:

Crookshanks knew Scabbers was not a rat. Sirius said that "he (the
cat) recognized Peter for what he was straight away". I suppose
Crookshanks later "told" Sirius about it :-).


> Carol wrote:

> Quite possibly, Crookshanks had a similar initial reaction to 
> Padfoot


zanooda:

This is possible, yes, because again, Sirius says that Crookshanks
knew at once that he (Sirius) was no dog, and that it took some time
to gain his trust. Although a cat would be mistrustful of any dog,
real or Animagus, IMO :-).