Cat (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.Template:Creature

## Description

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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.

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.

It was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm. 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.

## Types of cats

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### Coat types

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

### Breeds

* Ocicat
* Siamese cat
* Nebelung cat
* Russian blue cat
* Persian cat

## Known cats

### Pure-breed cats

* Mrs Norris
* Fuzzclaw

### Half-cat half-Kneazle

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

### Unspecified genetics

* Millicent Bulstrode's cat
* Madam Rosmerta's cat
* The Potters' cat
* Sybill Trelawney's cat
* Cat belonging to Tertius's brothers
* Jacob's sibling's cat

## Known cat Patronuses

* Dolores Umbridge
* Minerva McGonagall

## Known Animagus cats

* Minerva McGonagall
* Unidentified registered Animagus

## Behind the scenes

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* 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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## Notes and references

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1. ↑ Template:Wikilink
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Template:PS
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Template:POA
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Template:COS
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6. ↑ Template:PM - 10 things you might not know about Hagrid
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Template:HM
8. ↑ Template:COS
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11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Template:DH
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Template:PS
13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 Template:PM
14. ↑ Template:PAS
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