[HPforGrownups] Re: Winged animagi

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 36146

In a message dated 07/03/02 13:37:06 GMT Standard Time, 
christi0469 at hotmail.com writes:


> 
> "Those few Animagi who transform into winged creatures may 
> > > enjoy flight, but they are a rarity. The witch or wizard who 
> finds 
> > > him- or herself transfigured into a bat may takew to the air, 
> but, 
> > > having a bat's brain, they are sure to forget where they want to 
> go 
> > > the moment they take flight". So, unless I'm reading this 
> completely 
> > > wrong, bat Animagi are not the only ones who can fly.
> 
> 
> Eloise wrote,
> 
> > Now that's another interesting point. If you have the brain of the 
> creature 
> > you transform into, how do *any* animagi function effectively in 
> their animal 
> > forms? How, in fact, do they remember how to transform back again? 
> How can 
> > Rita Skeeter understand a word that's said to her?
> 
Christi replies:

> 
>   Hopefully, "the witch or wizard who finds him-or herself 
> transfigured into a bat" is an example of one wizard forcefully 
> transforming another into a bat, which would be different from an 
> Animagical transfiguration. Otherwise it would seem to be a BIG plot-
> hole. None of the Animagi we've seen show any signs of reduced brain 
> capacity.
> 
Quite. The odd thing that it comes in the context of speaking about 
*animagi*. And it does seem to imply that the bat transfiguree wanted to fly 
somewhere in the first place. A forceful transfiguration would be one such as 
Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret, whom, nevertheless, Crouch/Moody speaks 
to (Never...do...that...again) with each bounce, therefore presumably 
assuming he could understand. Otherwise the lesson he is 'teaching' applies 
only to the witnesses, and Draco could get the full point only if one of his 
cronies was brave enough to tell him exactly what had happened to him.
I think I'll put it down to a slight lapse on the author's part - whichever 
author you want to credit with Quidditch through the Ages! 
Eloise


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