[HPforGrownups] Super Animagi?

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 24075

In the Fantastic Beasts schoolbook, it said that a transfigured animal, like
Draco was in GoF, thinks and acts like that animal, whereas we know from
Sirius that an animagus keeps (more or less) his own thought processes,
although they may be a little dampened down - and we've seen from Rita that
she can at least remember quotes somewhat correctly when she hears things
while in bug-form. 




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> From: Zarleycat at aol.com [mailto:Zarleycat at aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 12:35 PM
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> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Super Animagi?
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> I had a thought while reading some of the recent post regaring the 
> difference in Animagi transformations (changing oneself into one, 
> particular animal) and being transformed by another wizard into an 
> animal (Draco's enforced change into the ferret).
> 
> Do you suppose there exists the possiblity of a higher/more difficult 
> level of Animagus transformation where a person can change themselves 
> into whatever kind of animal they want?  In other words, the Super 
> Animagus would have the ability to select whatever animal form would 
> be most useful for the task at hand; today it's a dog, tonight it's a 
> bat, tomorrow it's a fish.  I suppose you could use your wand to 
> transform yourself into various types of animals, but, IIRC, I don't 
> think we've seen any evidence of this in canon.
> 
> I remember seeing the cartoon (Disney?) version of "The Sword in the 
> Stone."  There is a scene where Merlin is dueling with a witch, who's 
> name I forget, and they both keep changing their animal forms, the 
> better to attack each other.  Merlin wins when he changes into a 
> virus and make the witch sick.  Seems to me like a useful skill.
> 
> 
> Marianne
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