[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi

[Daniel Siegmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 25088



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Ward [mailto:neilward at dircon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:13 PM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Mrs. Weasley...Sabre-toothed
> tiger??/Animagi
>
<snip>
> On a related point, as Harry and the others in his year move onto more
> advanced Transfiguration classes, the chances are, IMO, that at least one
> character will attempt to become an Animagus, and that we will get to
> witness the process, the evolution to another form.  I find it hard to
> believe that Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are the only Hogwarts' pupils to
> have attempted it while still at the school.  Perhaps Harry will follow in
> James' hoofprints, or Hermione in McGonagall's pawprints?  Maybe Percy is
> already doing night shifts as an owl?
>
> Neil

I don't know. Certainly SOME students would attempt it, but not many, and
many of those would likely fail. Really, if there's <10 registered animagi,
then unless >99% of animagi are unregistered, there can't be very many of
them. The question is why? Certainly it is difficult to learn, but so is
apparation. I think part of the reason is that it's not something most
people want to be bothered with. They ask themselves 'is it worth the
effort', and come up with 'no'.

Applying this logic to students, it can be seen why so few would attempt
this. They have enough schoolwork to do, without trying something extra.
Most probably figure that, if they want to become an animal for some reason,
they can transfigure normally (and if they can't accomplish it through
normal transfiguration, then there's no way they could be an animagus). I
would accomplish much the same thing.

Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs were not only exceptionally talented wizards
(the latter two anyway), they had a very good reason for wanting to become
animagi. A similar case is Harry learning the Patronus. There were other
students with the talent to learn it (like Hermione), but he did it b/c he
needed to protect himself from the dementors. I doubt more than a handful of
students know that spell.

I don't want to see Harry/Hermione become an animagus b/c it's been done to
death. It has worked well for two books, but enough is enough. A new
registered animagus might work, but I doubt we'll see one of those
(certainly not Harry!).

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