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Chicago police are on the lookout for a striped, long-haired cat named Lilian who was last seen not watering the fern she was explicitly left in charge of.

“That plant is long gone,” Alfred Cotts tells The Fluffington Post. “Lilian had one job: Keep the fern alive. But she spent all her time popping in and out of a cardboard box. She didn’t water it, or sing to it at all.”

A warrant for Lilian’s arrest has been issued by the Chicago PD, connected to two charges of willful neglect and one charge of first degree plantslaughter.

via @MelissaAlesi

Scandal rocked the wizarding world yesterday when news broke that a house elf named Codkey was actually a cat named Teddy.

“It came as quite a shock to us,” said Wendy Cresswell, whose family employed Codkey. “We immediately gave him a scarf to set him free when we found out. Though I guess… was that even necessary if he was a cat all along? I’m so confused.”

Officials at the Ministry of Elf Labor, which oversees house elf work assignments, aren’t sure how the cat was able to slip through their system.

“We thoroughly check every house elf we place,” said Argus Crabbe, a spokesperson for the Ministry. “We employ both archival research-based background checks as well as magical tests. We’ve no idea how Teddy slipped by us.”

Nor is it clear what the cat’s motives were for posing as a house elf. He could not be reached for comment.

Via The Daily Mail, H/T MilkyShaking.