Birds

[Catherine Keegan]

At 06:04 AM 3/15/02 +0000, The catlady  wrote:
>Catherine in Albion wrote:
>
> > Ravens are great. Smart and generally easy to feed.
>
>Maybe you could help me speculate, if the Trio became Animagi (even
>tho' JKR said in an interview that Harry won't) and their animal
>forms were all birds, what kind of birds would they be? I thought
>Harry might be a raven because he's a good flyer with black hair,

Ravens also have a sense of humor and are way too smart at times.  Yeah.  I 
could see Harry with his unruly black hair as a raven.

>  in which case maybe Hermione would be an owl...

Owls aren't as smart.  Clever and intimidating though.  All of the corvus 
family are very clever critters.  Ravens, crows, jays, magpies...  Now, 
Hermione could be a magpie.  She's bossy and smart which parallels both 
magpies and jays.  A good English bird to use would be a rook such as those 
at the Tower.  Good symbolism there, as well.

>and I wondered if making Ron be a red-headed woodpecker would be
>socially acceptable...

Actually, Ron might make a good owl.  He's got a temper and is brave.  Owls 
aren't stupid but they tend to ignore what they've learned at times.  They 
don't have the check list food/notfood, threat/notthreat and probably 
mate/notmate that I've watched hawks go through.  His temperament could 
easily put him into the jay or magpie area, too.  Folks with outdoor cats 
have probably seen their pets get dive bombed by jays or magpies. (Pauses 
while the image of a magpie on a broomstick, dressed in Quiddich robes 
flits by...)

I've always thought that Draco would make a good falcon with his imperious 
attitude and hyper ways.

>I've been a COBOL programmer since before there were PCs, so I've
>worked with enough British expats (an Aussie pgmmer who stopped over
>at Lee's house to buy winter clothes on his way to a contract in
>Holland said "The British are the software mercenaries of the world")

*lol* Must be your warm climate.  In the SF area, the men from India are 
the software mercenaries - at least in the mainframe end of the 
universe.  Hmmm.  At least in the systems end.

Enjoy the weekend folks!  I know my email will trickle down to hardly a 
thing with Yahoo down.  Maybe this is the weekend I finally get my weeding 
done - except it's supposed to rain.  Maybe it's a sewing weekend instead.

Catherine in Albion, CA