The Big Dog

[Felicia Rickmann]

My problem is I have a mental picture of Sirius the dog and can I describe it?????? Erm.... <deep breath and deeper thought>   OK I'll have a go.

It's sort of a very large and bulky Dalmation type dog, with the long hair of an irish wolfhound all wiry and grey but not hugely overhairy and shaggy.  As the Dalmation is related to the *grate dane* maybe it's not too far fetched.  It's physique is wiry and strong rather than a bulky and strength through weight idea.  This wiry strength would allow it to help in the control of Remus as Wolf and allows me to believe it slipped through the bars at Azkaban, something I canot imagine a bulky dog doing, cimply on the grounds that flesh can shrink but how much would the bones of an animagus shrink?

Felicia
off to have supper.........19.52 GMT......




Oh, but the Grim is =supposed= to be a Canine Of Unusual Size, 
because he's magical, not a natural dog.  A Great Dane might be the 
right size/height, but not shaggy or bulky enough ('bearlike' again).

A lurcher might work... how big do they get?  Remember, Padfoot was 
large enough to be able to help control a werewolf on the scent of 
human, in an emergency.
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