Cruella de Vil from school, though it is mentioned that they were not friends and that she frightened the young Mrs. Dearly. She was a menacing student with black and white plaits, and was expelled for drinking ink. However, she appears to be on friendlier terms with Mrs. Dearly when they encounter each other at the beginning of the novel, before Cruella steals Dearly's puppies. In all her incarnations, Cruella kidnaps 97 or 99 Dalmatian puppies for their fur. In the live-action version, it is revealed that the reason Cruella chooses to skin puppies is that when short-haired dogs grow older, their fur
Cruella de Vil and shut down the electricity, allowing Maleficent and Chernabog to escape their cells. In the following book "Shell Game", she assists the Queen and Maleficent in stealing Walt's original notes on Chernabog from the Archives. She then boards the "Dream" for the two-week cruise, along with the rest of the Overtakers. She commands the "Lion King"' hyenas, Happy and Howley, having them patrol the ship to keep the Keepers from finding Chernabog. In the seventh book "The Insider", Cruella joins Tia Dalma, the Queen and Judge Doom's group in Toontown; she calls an army of animals to the area with