[HPforGrownups] Marauders learning to be animagi....

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 35675

On 23 Feb 2002 at 8:23, Felicia Rickmann wrote:

> 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.  

er ... do we want to explore why McGonagall turns into a cat then?  Cats being 
the insatiably curious, hedonsitic little beasts that they are?  Maybe there's 
more to her than meets the eye?

Fiat who has seven cats and, since she had them all neutered at an early age, 
sincerely hopes that none of them are Animagi,  ... what with paybacks being 
rather unpleasant and all 

  
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