Marauders learning animagi - teachers?

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 35513

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:

> One risk is no doubt that you don't transform well enough and gain 
> trouble  breathing or other lethal thing. Or something...
> While others were learning animagi, RL was learning the antispell(he 
> used it to force Peter into human-form along with Sirius). Otherwise 
> he'd felt left out.

I suspect all the Marauders would've learned the antispell as a safety
precaution, so that if one of them did turn into fish or something,
the others could turn him back.  

> 
> Supposedly the Animagi-books are in restricted section (as it
requires 
> registration) in Hogwarts Library. They must have begun during 4th 
> year if not earlier. I think Lupin's parents were animagi and agreed 
> to teach the group so that they didn't have to do it alone. (AND
gave 
> them the books - so that they don't need to break rules for them...)

I don't think any of the Marauders would've had much problem with
breaking rules.  Besides, they were already breaking a much bigger
rule by becoming unregistered animagi in the first place.  Compared to
that, poking around in the Restricted Section is peanuts.

Besides, we're talking about a bunch of adolescent boys taking up
animagic in order to have exciting secret adventures together. 
There's no way they would've involved anybody's *parents* in the
undertaking.  That would get grown-up cooties all over it and take all
the fun out. <G>

Marina
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