Heartstring / Snape by Pip / Animagi

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39733

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
> > Yeah, but we know that's not true.  Reeta Skeeter turns into a 
> > beetle and flies around all over the place while retaining 
enough 
> > human intelligence to eavesdrop on conversations and remember 
them 
> > well enough to write them down later. She certainly has no 
problems 
> > remembering where she wants to go as a beetle. My theory is that 
> the 
> > guy who wrote QTA may have known a lot about Quidditch, but he 
> > didn't know squat about Animagus transformation. :-)
> > 
> > Marina
> 
> Maybe it's time for me to reread the books, but I was under the 
> impression that Rita was also an unregistered Animagus.  IIRC, in 
> discussions about what-we-don't-want-to-see-more-of in the 
remaining 
> books in the series, a number of people had said that we have 
quite 
> enough unregistered Animagi, thank you very much. If that's the 
case, 
> then of course she retains her human intelligence the same as 
> Wormtail, Padfoot or Prongs.  

Huh?  What does being registered on unregistered have to do with 
retaining one's human intelligence while in Animagus form?  
Registered just means you go down to the Ministry and fill out a 
little form saying "I'm an Animagus, this is what I turn into."  
It's a bureaucratic procedure, not an aspect of the transformation.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com