Feline

# Feline (Harry Potter)

> I don’ like cats, they make me sneeze.
>
> Rubeus Hagrid's dislike of cats, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

A **cat** is a small, furry domesticated mammal of the feline family, which was used in both the wizarding and Muggle worlds as a pet.

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## Description

Cats were sometimes kept as pets of witches and wizards. Students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were allowed to bring cats, among owls and toads, as their permitted pet at the school. The ***Magical Menagerie*** in Diagon Alley had many cats for sale. Among the students known to have brought cats were Hermione Granger and ***Millicent Bulstrode***.
The ***Felifors Spell*** was a Transfiguration spell which could transform cats into ***cauldrons***. It was taught to ***third-year*** students in Transfiguration during the ***1986–1987 school year*** at Hogwarts by Professor McGonagall.
Rubeus Hagrid remarked to Harry Potter on 31 July 1991 in Diagon Alley that he disliked cats, as they made him sneeze, as he was ***allergic*** to them. His pet dog Fang once had a fear of cats as a puppy after an aggressive encounter with Mrs Norris.

 File:Hermione turned into a cat.png  On ***25 December*** 1992, Hermione accidentally partly transformed herself into a cat with a botched Polyjuice Potion, having inadvertently added a ***hair*** from ***Bulstrode's cat***, believing the hair belonged to ***its owner***. As the ***potion*** was not intended for cross-species transformations, this resulted in Hermione spending the rest of her Christmas holidays in the school's Hospital Wing to be returned to normal.
Cats were also able to interbreed with ***Kneazles***, and generally had up to eight kittens in every litter. Some wizards and witches made a living by breeding Kneazles or part-Kneazles. ***Arabella Figg***, a ***Squib***, made her living in this manner. Minerva McGonagall's Patronus was a cat. There were also Animagi wizards and witches who could assume the form of a cat, notably Minerva McGonagall.

### Coat types

* Black cat
* Black and white cat
* Calico cat
* Ginger cat
* Tabby cat
* Tortoiseshell cat
* White cat

## Known cats

### Half-cat half-Kneazle

* Crookshanks
* Mr Tibbles
* Mr Paws
* Tufty
* Snowy

### Unspecified genetics

* Millicent Bulstrode's cat
* The Potters' cat

## Behind the scenes

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* In Template:DH, ***Aberforth Dumbledore*** lied to some ***Death Eaters*** in Hogsmeade about wanting to put his cat out to break curfew, when in reality he was concealing the fact that he had just let the trio enter his ***pub*** for protection. It is unknown if Aberforth actually owned a pet cat or not.
* In Template:COS, ***Vernon Dursley*** blamed the loud thumping noises made by Dobby on a non-existent family cat. Additionally in this film, the Weasley family's fireplace featured a motif of an orange cat.

## Appearances

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* Template:WBP
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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ Template:Wikilink
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Template:PS
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Template:POA
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Template:COS
5. ↑ Template:PM - 10 things you might not know about Hagrid
6. ↑ Squibs, FAQ section, www.jkrowling.com
It was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.
7. ↑ Template:See image
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Template:DH