The Animagus Clothing Cop-Out

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No: HPFGUIDX 24986

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Cindy:
> > I'm still puzzling over this issue of what animagi take with them 
> when they transform.  It seems they keep their robes.
> 
> Animagi are common figures in fantasy novels (as I mused a couple 
>of months ago), and every time a fantasy author decides to toss a 
>couple into the plot, they hit that age-old problem of What To Do 
>About Their Clothes.  Arguments about "but it's Magic!" aside, I 
>would argue that only the person's body should transform into the 
>animal, with any clothing, objects carried, etc. left hanging 
>ridiculously from the animal's body (picture a wolf crammed into 
>Lupin's patched robes) or falling to the ground, unable to be held 
>by a hoof or wing or paw.  

This might not be exactly the same thing, but there was a children's 
program on an English T.V. channel a few years back which was about a 
boy who 
transfomed into a dog at very inconvenient times (young British/Irish 
people might remember it was called "woof") When he transformed he 
would leave his clothes behind in a pile and when he changed back he 
was completely naked!!! Yes i know you might be thinking what kind of 
children's program is that? But I assure you it was very discreetly 
done!!!! Anyway this, I thought, was far more realistic than the "now 
you see them, now you dont" approach to human/animal transformations
Just a thought!!
-mary