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

[Isabelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 10892

What you said about James being tall is true- but don't you think we 
should leave Harry to grow, as he's not finished yet? Perhaps he'll 
experience a growth spurt or something...... And James, to my 
knowledge, is only described as tall as an adult, but they don't talk 
about his height from when he was at Hogwarts, do they?

Isabelle



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Pam Hugonnet <pbarhug at t...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.)