Nitpicking, was Re: Order of the Phoenix

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22186

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dorband at u... wrote:

> I don't know about the whole animagus thing - it's supposed to be 
very 
> complicated, yet 4 students are able to perfect it

Sorry, Brian, but as founder of the League of Obsessed Nitpickers 
(L.O.O.N.) I am obligated to point out that 3, not 4, students 
mastered the animagus spell -- Sirius Black, James Potter, and Peter 
Pettigrew.  The 4th unregistered animagus that we know of is Rita 
Skeeter, and we have no way of knowing if she became an animagus 
during her student years, or later on in life.

Nevertheless, your point is well taken that for such a complicated 
spell an awful lot of people seem to have mastered it.  However, it 
is possible that Rita Skeeter (who doesnt strike me as the sharpest 
knife in the drawer) had some help with the spell, and we know that 
Peter Pettigrew did.  Since James Potter and Sirius Black were known 
as brilliant students, it is still possible that it takes a certain 
amount of brilliant intelligence or skill to do this spell

--Joywitch