Avada Kedavra and the Swishing Sound

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No: HPFGUIDX 31133


> 
> Before you howl with mirth, consider that in an interview (my 
advisor 
> would tsk-tsk briskly over the missing citation here), Rowling 
noted 
> that an Animagus (fem. Animaga?) cannot *choose* the animal whose 
> form he will take. 

That *does* go with the daemon theory. Anyone who's read Phillip 
Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy will remember that no-one 
chooses what form their daemons take when they "settle" and assume a 
single form; it is somehow "decided" and ends up being exactly right 
for the person. Presumably the same applies to the Animagi in HP - we 
can assume to a point that the characters who are animagi are like 
the animal they transform into. Certainly Peter Pettigrew makes a 
good rat, and Sirius a loyal, faithful dog, but hmm, yeah, it does 
sort of throw off the idea that they picked who they transformed into 
so they made decent companions for the werewolf Lupin..!! Also sorry 
if this has been discussed recently. 

~Raven Singer~