Crookshanks : “The cat’s ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged…” (PoA 60).
Mundungus : “He had short bandy legs, long straggly ginger hair…” (OotP 22).
Though Crookshanks is spunky and Mundungus is said to resemble a basset hound, there is no doubt that as a cat and a crook, respectively, they each live by their wits.
And, hello, Crookshanks is called Crookshanks and Mundungus is a crook.
Are they somehow more related??
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Rowling, J. K.. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York, Toronto:, Aukland, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires Scholastic Inc., 1999.
My friend Megin speculates that the R.A.B., who left the note with the fake Horcrux in HBP, is liable to be Regulus Black. I think that’s a definite possibility. In fact, I think it’s extremely likely. I also think it’s likely that we’ve seen the real locket horcrux in OotP when Molly and the kids were cleaning 12 Grimmauld Place. They did indeed find such a locket. Because of that, I feel 12 Grimmauld Place just might have a part in book 7.
What I wonder is, where is the locket now? Does Mundungus have it? Does Dumbledore’s brother, Aberforth, have it? (He did seem to be making a deal with Mundungus when Harry stumbled on them in HBP.) Perhaps. I think it’s also possible that Kreature has it either on him or stashed at 12 Grimmauld Place. And that possibility makes me wonder what’s coming from Kreature. We already know he can be a duplicitous bastard. When Sirius died, did Kreature really pass on to Harry? Or did he actually pass on to Bellatrix and is she having him pretend to serve “that Potter brat?” I wonder.
I also wonder what this says about Regulus. Is he dead? Or only pretending? What hanged his mind about Voldemort? Upon searching his name, I found that the Wikipedia has some interesting bits about him–very interesting.