[HPforGrownups] Re: Lagging in Transfiguration?

[Szabina Snape]

No: HPFGUIDX 28565

--- davidjfein at hotmail.com wrote:
> Could someone explain why you can only be an anamagi
> for one type of 
> animal (which is also your patronus), but you can
> tranfigure yourself 
> into anything?  What am I missing?  Why doesn't
> transfiguration trump 
> the limits of being an animagi? 

Szabina responds:
I don't have an answer for you (kinda wondered myself
why animagi are so rare when it is obviously common to
transfigure living objects).  However, I'm wondering
about your statement that the animal you are an
anamagi for is also your patronus.  

If I understand the concept of a patronus correctly,
it is a protective image/spell.  In cannon, Harry is
not an animagi.  His patronus is a stag.  The stag
represents his father (who would naturally be
protective of him and was a stag animagus).  In canon
it is rare to be an animagi.  So most wizards/witches
could not have their patronus be their animagus form. 


Does it say in one of the books that the patronus of
animagi is always the form of the animal they turn
into?  I don't remember that from the books.

Szabina

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