[HPforGrownups] Animagi

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 40620

Kangasboy has done the damned near impossible....

> I am sorry if this has already been brought up, but I don't
> remember it ever happening. .  .

You know, I don't think it ever has. A new thought. And here we thought it
couldn't be done.

> I was re-reading Prisoner of Azkaban last night, and I noticed
> something strange.
> Towards the end, (on page 309) Lupin asks Harry "Tell me about
> your Patronus.", and Harry tells him about  the stag, and how he
> thought he'd seen his father, etc. Lupin replies by telling him
> "Your father was always a stag when he transformed". This
> "always" is interesting, as it seems to imply that everytime a
> wizard transforms,  s/he has a choice as to which form they take.
> If the "always" wasn't there, it would follow logically that each
> wizard has only one animagus form.
> So what do people think? Does the wizard's choice influence
> their animagus form? Or is there only one, innate animagus
> form possible?

JKR seems to have made it clear in interviews that one has only one Animagus
form, and what that form is somehow has to do with your inner self.
But your observation is correct.

The only thing I can think of is that Lupin might not know too much about
the Animagus spell. He doesn't know it, never mastered it. Perhaps the
knowledge that one is limited to one form comes in the advanced stages of
the spell. I really don't know. Good catch.

--Amanda