question about JKR interview
Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>
catlady at wicca.net
Fri Feb 14 05:32:27 UTC 2003
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent
<psychic_serpent at y...>" <psychic_serpent at y...> wrote:
> When I went to this interview
> http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2.htm
> the only Animagus question I found was this one:
> Q. If you were Animagus, what kind of animal would you be?
> A. I'd like to be an otter that's my favourite animal. It would
> be depressing if I turned out to be a slug or something.
She made a very similar statement in another interview:
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/October_2000_Live_Chat_Americ
a_Online.htm
Q: Does the animal one turns into as an Animagi reflect your
personality?
JKR: Very well deduced, Narri! I personally would like to think
that I would transform into an otter, which is my favorite animal.
Imagine how horrible it would be if I turned out to be a cockroach!
I looked up those two quotes on The Goat Pad so often that I finally
saved them in a .txt file that I can just copy into my post whenever
I want to insist that JKR has confirmed in interviews that the
Animagus doesn't get to choose his/her animal form, but instead the
animal form is a reflection of his/her personality.
>
>
> I do recall someone saying that she denied that she would make
> Harry an Animagus, but whether there's a transcript of that
> available, I don't know.
Apparently Angua (it was Angua, not Audra; I apologise) has
posted that transcript in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/52067
I hope Lexicon Steve and Aberforth's Goat Mike are catching these
newly revealed transcriptions ...
> I liked that she made Harry's dad a Chaser, not a Seeker (that
> question is in the above interview), as it drew a distinction
> between the two, but now that she's allowed the filmmakers to muck
> around with that and make James a Seeker in the first film, who
> knows?
I don't mind that JKR let the movie people change James's Quidditch
position from what she said in the interview, because I was not
pleased with what she said in the interview: *I* want James to have
been a Seeker.
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