[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi: can they chose what they will become?/How di...

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 35540

In a message dated 20/02/02 23:25:13 GMT Standard Time, CorGlacier7 at aol.com 
writes:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Yoris" <msn.tsf at h...> wrote:
> 
> > Further more this brings me to the question: How did Rita Skeeter 
> became an
> > Animaga?
> >  I mean it took 3 of the most brilliant students hogwarts ever had 
> (Remus,
> > James and Sirius)
> 
> Never is it said they were the most brilliant students Hogwarts has 
> ever produced.  Please do *not* succumb to overblowing things.  It's 
> said they *were* intelligent, which is quite a genral 
> description...half a class could be "intelligent".  That is all.
> 
Actually, this ain't so and I don't think you're accurately quoting Yoris, 
either.
Lupin says (PoA, p259, UK ed), 'Your father and Sirius here were the 
cleverest students in the school'.
 Not the most brilliant ever, but certainly a lot more than just 
'intelligent': as Yoris said, three *of* the most brilliant Hogwarts 
students. That *of* is important.

 Eloise


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