he put his paws on a knot on the trunk of the whomping willow
Harry Potter and Ron Weasley crashed into the Whomping Willow.
come on this is general knowledge! its called the whomping willow and in the books its over 200 years old and it has a secret entrance to the house in hogsmaid all's you need to do is hit the knot in the tree with a stick to calm it down so you can get into the entrance. come on who doesn't know that?
Yes, he was actually beneath the Whomping Willow a couple of times in the story as an adult.
Harry potter did run into some problems in #3... Such as Malfoy, The whomping willow, Dementors, the grim, the dursleys, Crookshanks, peter petigrew, snape and Buck beak the hippogriff!!!
push hard on the knot in the middle
Yes, when Harry and Ron crashed the car into the tree it attacked them.
Whomping Willow, mentioned in book 3
The Whomping Willow was planned when Sirius Black was a student at Hogwarts. He,and two other of his friends, decided they wanted to be shape-shifters. They each had their animal,(Sirius' was the wolf), and Sirius would change into this every month on the full moon. It soon became very hard to hide this secret, until Dumbledore came to know of this. He then created the Whomping Willow, which had a secret room at the bottom. Every Month, Sirius would go into the Whomping Willow and turn into the wolf and then come out again soon after without anyone coming to know.
That is the "Whomping Willow". It didn't let anyone near because that was what it was designed to do.
the whomping willow features heavily if that helps at all.
Whomping Willow
Crookshanks was Hermione Granger's pet cat. He is half-Kneazle,[1]as evidenced by his lion-like appearance, ability to solve problems on his own without aid or teaching, and clear dislike of and ability at recognising untrustworthy persons (even if they are transfigured).