[HPforGrownups] Re: Car vs goat/animagi (again) - a bit OT

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4597

lrcjestes wrote:

> Well Sirius makes the point that his emotions are simpler in dog form, so my
> guess is that they think differently in their animagus forms...maybe more
> like a thinking dog rather than a human in a dog exterior?  Did that make
> sense?

I think probably his *projected* emotions are more like a dog's. I think what
goes on inside, thought-process-wise, remains on a human level. Kind of like the
animal form is a mask for their emotions and thoughts, but they retain them
inside. Otherwise, how could a beetle possibly eavesdrop on conversations and
retain any sense of what she'd heard? Or anything of length? The things that the
animagi observe as animals and later relate seem to have been absorbed with a
human's powers of observation.

--Amanda