Do Animagi choose their forms? and the change over to yahoo groups

[Pam Hugonnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 10862



Catlady wrote:

> ANIMAGI FILK
> Caius Marcius wrote: (The Scene: Behind locked doors at Gryffindor, a
> generation or so distant. Three friends of Remus Lupin, SIRIUS BLACK,
> JAMES POTTER, and PETER PETTIGREW have reached the point in their
> Animagi studies that they are now ready to select the type of animal
> into which they will transform)
>
> The song is cute, but IIRC it has a Major Factual Error: Animagi don't
> get to CHOOSE their animal form, they just get stuck with the luck of
> the draw. I've often wondered if they could get a second animal form by
> going through the 'dangerous' Animagus process a second time.
>

Really?   Is this so?   Do you have a reference in the book where it says
so?  I'm curious because I had always imagined that
that there was some degree of choice involved.  Maybe the number of choices
is limited by some inherent characteristic of the person--for example,
Pettigrew's rat-like qualities are so apparent he'd likely not have any
success in transforming himself into a lion, but he might have success with
another rodent-type creature.  I guess I've come up with this theory because
McGonagal doesn't seem very cat-like to me; I figured that a cat was her
choice, not her destiny.

Catlady continued:

> Someone already commented that James was Chaser, not Seeker. I have a
> problem with JKR having said that.  She firmly established how much
> Harry resembles James physically, and she had Wood state that Harry is
> the right build for a Seeker, so therefore James would also have been
> the right build for a Seeker. The fans were all sure that James was a
> Seeker and were all wrong.

    Harry does resemble James, but they are different in one fundamental
way: James was tall (it's one of his more referred to characteristics, right
along with the untidy hair) and Harry is very short.  I would think that
being tall would be a disadvantage for a seeker and an advantage for a
chaser.  I always imagined James as the keeper myself.  I also suspect that
we will  learn that Godric Gryffindor was very short as well.



As for this change to yahoo groups, is there anything that is absolutely
vital that needs to be changed?  Will my mail still show up in my inbox or
do I have resubscribe?

drpam of Gryffindor
who is mostly albus dumbledore and charlie weasley, with a little Hermione
for good measure and nothing at all like Lord Voldemort (at least according
to the character quiz.)