[HPforGrownups] Re: Wands and Robes for Animagi

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 24971

cynthiaanncoe at home.com wrote:

> I'm still puzzling over this issue of what animagi take with them when
> they transform.  It seems they keep their robes.

They must, or we'd have been treated to a stark naked McGonagall perched
on the wall with Dumbledore in Chapter 1, Book 1. Pardon--she had her
glasses on. In fact, I find it intriguing that the glasses translate
into spectacle-shaped markings; I think the clothes and immediate
accoutrements "go" with you in the animagus transformation. Excess
stuff, like packages, boxes, or bags, or babies, won't be included
(which prompted an interesting, if somewhat ooky, line some months ago
on whether pregnant animagi can transform....).

>  But we learn in PoA that when Pettigrew blew up the street, they
> found "bloodstained robes."  Yet Pettigrew turns up 12 years later
> wearing robes.

Pettigrew had this planned. Pettigrew had time to cut off his finger, so
he probably had no trouble dropping a spare set of robes, too. The dust
and confusion from the explosion could easily have covered him for the
minute or so needed.

> Also, if Black had a wand, he could ward off the dementors without
> Harry's help.

Using all those happy memories? Even if he knew the spell, I doubt he
had the inner reserves of happiness necessary to be the strength of the
Patronus. I personally think he just had been through too much, and the
appearance of the Dementors was the last straw, and he curled up into a
ball and gave up.

--Amanda


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