Runes in Sirius's "wanted" poster

[Dean]

Runes have almost unlimited meaning and i chose the ones that best 
suit sirus. Still after the events of book 5 i think thats its very 
unlikely that the director choose the runes by accident. I know the 
animal kingdom is not the usual meaning for Algiz but i found it on 
this site 
http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/english/texts/readingrunes.html#algiz

and i thought that it was to good to pass up (animagi and all) I've 
never heard that meaning anywhere else either. 

The site also says about algiz
"It represents inner strength, being in contact with all the animal 
forces within and without."
Now thats a description of an animagai if i ever heard one.
There probably wont be any references to runes in previous potter 
film due to the new director but maby its somthing to keep an eye out 
for in the future. Maby we will get to see Barty jnr or Malfoy's 
number in future films. 

About Azkaban assigning sirus the runes maby they used some magical 
means to do so?
Or maby its not his prision number but some form of wizard ID number 
chosen or assigned when they leave school.

Dean

> Odile again:
> 
> Erm, that's interesting.  Indeed, Gifu can be
> interpreted in that way, although its traditional
> sense is one of exchange - "...a gift demands a
> gift..." as it says in the Havamal - hence the X
> shape, where the two lines are of equal length.  
> 
> However, I have never known Algiz to be interpreted in
> that way; I have never seen it associated with the
> Animal Kingdom.  Where did you find that reference?
> 
> And what stumps me is that yes, these two runes are in
> his *prisoner ID*, i.e., the folks at *Azkaban*
> assigned them to Sirius - why would they use runes
> with positive connotations?  It's not like they would
> be obscure to the Wizards and Witches of the
> Potterverse.
> 
> 
> I haven't caught any... just passing references in the
> books.  Unless you want to revisit the old debate as
> to the shape of Harry's scar: Eiwaz? Or Sowulo? in
> which case you might want to have a look at messages
> 81951 and 81960 over at the Harry Potter for GrownUps
> archive.  ^_^
> 
> Odile