How did Crookshanks help Sirius?

Crookshanks helped Sirius lure Harry, Ron, and Hermione into the Shrieking Shack. During the scuffle between Harry and Sirius, Crookshanks attempted both to steal Harry's wand and attack Harry, and when both failed, set himself over Sirius' heart.
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How did Crookshanks know Sirius?

He could have found out from Sirius (as a dog) at Hogwarts.

Crookshanks was able to communicate with Sirius when Sirius was in Animagus form. Once he'd earned Crookshanks's trust, Sirius was able to tell him what he wanted and get his help. “He's the most intelligent of his kind I've ever met.
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What helpful thing did Crookshanks do?

Not only did Crookshanks save Hermione and her friends from the branches, but he also led them, safe and sound, to the hidden passage under the Willow into the "haunted" Shrieking Shack.
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Is Crookshanks Sirius?

It was Crookshanks who helped Sirius gift Harry his Firebolt. Sirius tasked the cat with taking the broomstick order to the Owl Office in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Is Crookshanks a animagus?

Crookshanks is part-kneazle, and particularly clever, but not an animagus.
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Why is Crookshanks loyal to Sirius?

He was affectionate with those he liked and acted as a shield to Sirius, when Harry Potter was planning to kill him. He eventually came to like Harry and would sit on his lap on occasion, as he did in the summer of 1996.
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Is Crookshanks Lily's cat?

In The Deathly Hallows, when the trio are in Grimmauld Place, Harry reads a letter hand-written by Lily.
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What happened to Crookshanks after the war?

Last confirmed location was at the Burrow when Hermione left with Harry to hunt Horcruxes. The wiki page for crookshanks says "During the height of the Second Wizarding War, Crookshanks stayed at the the Burrow.
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Is Regulus Black Crookshanks?

Crookshanks Is Actually Regulus Black

We know now that Crookshanks is canonically half kneazle, but the evidence about him being a secret animagus as well is quite compelling. For starters, you can't throw a rock into the Harry Potter universe without hitting an unregistered animagus.
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What did Crookshanks successfully steal in Prisoner of Azkaban to help Sirius Black?

Crookshanks helped Sirius lure Harry, Ron and Hermione into the Shrieking Shack. During the scuffle between Harry and Sirius, Crookshanks attempted both to steal Harry's wand and attack Harry, and when both failed, set himself over Sirius' heart.
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Is Mrs Norris an Animagus?

Mrs Norris seems exceptionally smart for a cat, to the point that many have suspected she is a cat/Kneazle cross like Crookshanks or an Animagus. However, J. K. Rowling has stated on her website that she is just a highly unpleasant cat.
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Is Crookshanks just a cat?

Overview. Crookshanks is a cat owned by Hermione Granger. He is quite large, for a cat, orange ("ginger") colored with brown stripes, and has an "ugly", almost flat face and a bottle-brush tail.
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What is Hermione's favorite spell?

And the third favorite Wingardium Leviosa, used for levitation, and known, perhaps most memorably, for Hermione Granger's pronunciation of it in Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone.
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What is Sirius Black's Boggart?

Sirius Black's boggart was himself, yet with subtle changes. A black cloak over his head, the dark mark proudly displayed on his pale skin and a malicious smirk gracing his lips. He feared becoming the future his parents desired of him. Peter Pettigrew's boggart was Lord Voldemort.
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Who was Hermiones cat?

2. Crookshanks – “It was either a very big cat or quite a small tiger,” Harry remarked the first time he met Hermione's squashed-faced, bowlegged ginger cat Crookshanks. Half-Kneazle, he was intelligent, rambunctious, and the perfect companion for a night by the fire in the Gryffindor common room. I was pretty jealous.
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How did Sirius get a Firebolt?

How did Sirius buy the Firebolt? Fandom. How did Sirius buy the Firebolt? Sirius Black bought and sent Harry a Firebolt at the end of the third book.
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What if Crookshanks ate Scabbers?

Conversation. If Ron had let Crookshanks eat scabbers, probably Sirius, Remus, Cedric, Fred, Tonks, Dobby wouldn't have died and the hero of the series would be a cat.
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What kind of cat is Crookshanks in real life?

The 10-year-old red persian has lived a rags-to-riches life. She was adopted from a Persian cat rescue center in the UK and made her debut as Hermione Granger's pet cat Crookshanks in the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, released in 2004.
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Did the Potters have a cat?

Loyalty. The Potters' cat was a pet of the Potter family. This cat was mentioned in Lily Evans' letter to Sirius Black that Harry had nearly killed it while flying on Sirius' birthday present to Harry, a toy broomstick. It is currently unknown if it died when Lord Voldemort attacked the Potters, or escaped unharmed.
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Was Aunt Petunia a squib?

The fan asked the author if Aunt Petunia was a Squib (a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent) and Rowling replied: "Good question. No, she is not, she is not a Squib. She is a Muggle.
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Was Lily Potter an Animagus?

James Potter

James's Animagus form was that of a stag, which earned him his nickname, Prongs. Strikingly, Harry's Patronus was a stag and his mother Lily's was a doe, a female deer, showing that the family's characters were in harmony and formed part of the same animal group.
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What were Sirius last words?

Sirius Black

"Come on, you can do better than that!" Black loses his battle with Bellatrix and just like that, another member of Harry's makeshift family has died. Photo: Warner Bros.
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