[HPforGrownups] Re: Peter Pettigrew's brain as Scabbers

Sat Sep 22 14:08:22 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 26461

--- Caius Marcius <coriolan at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> I made a similar error earlier - it was pointed out
> to me that Mr. 
> Whisp is differentiating between two different
> groups - Animagi, who 
> can transform at will into animals, and those "find
> [themselves]
> transfigured," like Draco when he found himself
> turned to a ferret. 
> The former group would retain their cognitive
> abilities (so Rita 
> Skeeter could remember all that she said and heard
> as a beetle), 
> while the latter would not (so Draco would have at
> best a cloudy 
> recollection of his time as a ferret)

   Aha! So that's it. I wondered what made the animagi
spell different from ordinary transfiguration.
Obviously the tricky part that requires such careful
study and preperation is arranging to keep one's human
cognition even if animal form. 
   Am I correct in  thinking an animagus; animal form
is not a matter of choice but a involuntary reflection
of their personality?

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