Animagi: can they chose what they will become?/How di...

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 35554

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Yoris" <msn.tsf at h...> wrote:

> There is no education after hogwarts so I don't think an average
student
> after school like Rita is much smarter/powerfull then James, Remus
or
> Sirius, and they worked TOGETHER also and it still took 3 years.

There is no *formal* education after Hogwarts, but that doesn't
preclude the possibility of an apprenticeship system, on-the-job
training, private research, or other forms of education.  

> Rita became UNREGISTERED animagi so I think she might have a lot of
trouble
> getting the books too (tell me: how should she have gotten the
books) 

She could've bribed a registered animagus to teach her (I'm sure not
every registered animagus is morally unimpeachable).  She could've had
access to the private library of a registered animagus friend or
relative.  She could've used her press credentials at the Daily
Prophet to access libraries that would normally be inacessible to her.


> and
> some trouble getting anyone to help her since almost everyone hates
her.
> 

I doubt "almost everyone" hates her.  I've met any number of people as
obnoxious as Rita, who nevertheless had friends.  Usually the friends
were just as obnoxiuos, but sometimes they weren't.  Other people who
share Rita's gossipy mindset would probably like her, and may even
wish to assist her with things like animagic research in order to
facilitate her gossip-mongering.