Snuffles and Re: question about crookshanks

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 185825

 
> zanooda:
> 
> Maybe it's not exactly a language, but more like mental images? That
> would explain "bloodstains" communicated to Sirius :-). Maybe Sirius
> used the word "told" just for simplicity's sake.

Potioncat:
First the Snuffles part. Boy, did that nickname get a go-over by this 
group! 

We have a new dog in the family. He's a beagle---or a mostly beagle. 
When we go outside you can "hear" him smelling. The first time we 
went out I actually thought, "What is that noise?" Honest to 
goodness, it is a very loud snuffle. For that matter, you can see his 
nose working--must have as many muscles in his nose as an elephant 
has in its trunk.

Had I been the one to choose his name it would have been Snuffles at 
that point. However, he had already been named after anothr fictional 
dog with powers---Snoopy.

We also have a cat. Trust me, the two communicate. The cat took her 
time welcoming the dog into the family---but she had been best pals 
with our late dog--and the new pair are warming up to each other.

No, I don't know if they use words or mental images. They haven't 
communicated that to me.

For that matter, when one of our neighbors walks his dog he has to 
stop to let the dog visit a another neighbor's cat along the way. So 
I think JKR was playing with that sort of relationship between 
Snuffles and Crookshanks.

Carol, when were Crookshanks and Snape together? I seem to recall it 
as well though, thinking that Crookshanks didn't seem to mistrust 
Snape.

 
> > Joey wrote:
> 
> > There is another question I had. At one point, Sirius
> > mentions "Crookshanks, did you call him?" (when he explains 
> > his past to HRH in PoA climax). I think none had addressed 
> > Crookshanks by his name that night for Sirius to make 
> > that remark. If I'm right, what was Sirius talking about then?

Potioncat:
Maybe Crookshanks had introduced himself by his real name, the one 
humans never learn, but had added, "they call me Crookshanks."

Potioncat, with a nod to T.S. Elliott.