Animagus Transformation & Naked Wizards (WAS Sartorial blind-spots, )

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 36299

Elkins wrote:

>You know, I have to admit that it never once occurred to me to 
> wonder what Pettigrew was wearing in Shrieking Shack.  <snip 
cringing>

Not to worry.  There's plenty of evidence that Animagi keep their 
clothes.  ::pauses to imagine McGonagall in her birthday suit on the 
wall on Privet Drive and in the classroom in PoA::  Well, if there 
isn't evidence, we need to find it *right now*.

I think Peter dropped a spare set of robes, because he knew that his 
own robes would go with him when he transformed.  Yes, that's it.  

I actually think JKR's handling of animagi transformation makes some 
sense.  The wizard keeps everything personal to the wizard (glasses, 
robes).  The wizard keeps all magical items, also.  This is how Lupin 
still has the invisibility cloak when he becomes a wolf (yes, I know 
that's not an animagus transformation) and how McGonagall keeps her 
wand.  

So where is Pettigrew's wand?  It should have transformed with him, 
but he appears not to have it.  That's, uh, because he set his wand 
on self-destruct, see.  He didn't just blow a hole in the street with 
his wand.  He's a weak, talentless thing, right Sirius?  Pettigrew 
had his wand blow *itself* up.  He yells out, then he drops the wand, 
transforms, scurries, and then the wand explodes before the muggles 
know what hit them.  Now *that* would generate some seriously lethal 
magical energy.  So they never found Pettigrew's wand because it no 
longer exists.  

Cindy (not eager to imagine Rita Skeeter in the altogether, either)