Sirius

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 16792

At 03:51 PM 4/14/01 +0000, rainy_lilac at yahoo.com wrote:
>I am nervous too-- has anyone taken note that Rita Skeeter now knows
>that Sirius Black is an animagus??? And that he is close to Harry???

Hermione could retaliate and say Rita is one too -- But what if she
runs (flies) off like Wormtail?

What I keep worrying about is that he'll finally get aquitted of
murder and helping Voldy, but then they'll throw him back
into Azkaban for being an unregistered animagus!  (If there
still *is* an Azkaban after WizWarII... Otherwise, maybe
they'll just sentence him to a year of Wizard community
service.)

>This is what has protected him all along-- the fact that he could
>transform into a dog and that nobody except a few trusted friends knew
>about this ability. Now the dementors will know....

I think they must realize it already... They forced Sirius back
into human form just before they attempted to give him the
Kiss...

At 01:52 PM 4/14/01 +0000, Amy Z wrote:
>Anyway, maybe when Animagi are in their animal forms, they have animal
>tastes.  So eating rats, while not the most pleasant thing, wasn't as
>bad for Padfoot as it would have been for Sirius.  Dogs do eat rats,
>even though they'd prefer a nice steak.

FWIW, Sirius' saying that he was living on rats made me think of
Farley Mowat in _Never Cry Wolf_, who lived on rats in order
to prove that an animal as massive as a wolf could.



                                                 -- Dave