Winged animagi

[moongirlk]

No: HPFGUIDX 36158

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "christi0469" <christi0469 at h...> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
>   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.

I also think probably Whisp is not an animagus nor a scholar on the 
subject.  When the kids study animagism in class there's no mention 
one way or another, so maybe there is little or no scholarship on the 
thought processes of animagi in animal form, and thus non-animagi 
don't really know what it's like?  After all, animagism is supposed 
to be rare, even if it's not so rare amongst those in our 
acquaintance so far.  Maybe Whisp just stumbled into an area beyond 
his knowlege and made an assumption that went unchallenged due to a 
lack of general information on the subject.  And there *is* evidence 
that at least emotions are simplified while in animal form - in 
Sirius' explanation of his survival in Azkaban.

kimberly
hoping to avoid another plot-hole.