Marauders learning to be animagi....

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 35628


> > Gwen asked:
> > >1. Does the fact that Remus is a werewolf adversely effect or somehow
> > change his nature sufficiently to render Animagus transformation moot
> > (i.e., he'll become a wolf)?;
> > >2. To what extent does the wolf dictate his true animal form? Is it
> > possible that he could in fact transform at will into some other
> > animal, and if so, which animal? What would it reveal about his
> character?
> >
> > This really intrigues me. My initial, gut reaction says that, were
> he to have started his work towards becoming an animagus when he was a
> boy, he might well have been able to transform into something other than a
> wolf, something that better suited his nature.
> >

Looking at the animagus throughout the HP canon, it strikes me that the
actual creature an animagus turns into always seems to reflect something of
their character.

Dreadful Rita Skeeter becomes a creepy crawly beetle (GoF),  Pettigrew a
lowly rat and James Potter a noble stag (PoA).   So I  would think that
while the actual process of becoming an animal is
 proably a magical skill that could be learned, the magic takes the
personality traits of an animagus into account and governs to a large extent
what the person turns into.  As Remus is a werewolf, not an
 animagus as James, Sirius and Peter were (who did it to keep him
company...) I'm not sure how much of an animagus discussion can legitimately
be applied to him.

 Felicia Rickman