The Big Dog

[sffcorgi]

--- Felicia Rickmann wrote:
> 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.
> 
> <snip excellent description> 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,

Excellent reasoning, except we run aground on the rocks of [digs 
through canon excerpts] USppb p. 225 'Gigantic', p. 270-1, 'Bear-
sized dog' and p. 279 'Enormous, bear-like'.

<helpless shrug>  Not me, it's JKR.

> cimply on the grounds
> that flesh can shrink but how much would the bones of an animagus
> shrink?

Errrr... one - no, two words.  Names, really.
  Wormtail.
  Rita Skeeter.
Or, to put it in a more verbose way:  A lot.  It's magic, after all.
 
Corgi
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