Animagi (was Litter of Werewolves)

[Alicia/Sue Spinnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 328

Hello:

Hmm... I wonder if the children of Animagi are all human, or all 
animal?  Makes you wonder if certain Animagus traits are inherited.

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--Alicia/Sue "Haircolor Chameleon" Spinnet

"Ever notice that 'what the hell' is usually the right decision?"

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--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Merriman Vicki" wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" wrote:
> > > OMIGOD!  Crookshanks is the child of Minerva McGonagall, 
> > > conceived while she > was running around as a kitty!
> > 
> > I love it!  Minerva gave birth to a persian, pushed in face and 
> > everything.
> 
> I guess that implies that the father was a Persian --- is such a 
> pregnancy 40 days like a cat or 9 monhts like a human?  One train of
> thought suggests that nine months of pregnancy, and the difficulty 
of 
> hiding it from her students and explaining it to her friends would 
> influence her to remember to go into human form when she goes into 
> labor. Another train of thought wonders if it makes a different 
> if the father was a full-time cat or an Animagus?
> 
> While yet a third train of thought wonders why an English child (or 
> writer) would think that a bowlegged cat with a pushed-in (Persian 
> style) face is ugly? That's normal for them!
> 
> I have learned from my cat books that the British Shorthair is a 
> weird looking critter, not at all like a normal cat like American 
> Shorthair. THEY LIKE the 'flat' face (like a bulldog! is that why 
> they like it, the British bulldog?) and 'cobby' physique, and are 
> convinced that 'tabby' means blotch tabby and there's something 
novel 
> about nice normal tiger stripes.
> 
> At least one book explained that there was a shortage of alley cats 
> in Britain after WWII (I hesitate to speculate that people 
suffering 
> from rationing ATE them) so some people 'recovered' the breed of 
> free-roaming British Shorthairs by mixing them with pedigreed 
> Persians.