KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Although his significance to the Harry Potter series is limited, readers have picked up traces of skepticism over his bearing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, CH, PC (27 May 1893 – 17 October 1961), was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1955.

Detailed explanation-3: -Etymology. The name Crookshanks seems to refer to the cat’s bandy legs, from crook, meaning “a bend", and shank, a term for the lower part of the legs. It is likely to be derived from the Scottish surname ‘Cruikshanks’, which is pronounced in exactly the same way.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -In The Deathly Hallows, when the trio are in Grimmauld Place, Harry reads a letter hand-written by Lily.