Animagi and animal minds

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 36544

Concerning Animagi and the animal urges of their magical forms, any 
fans of Piers Anthony's Xanth series might remember a theme of 
shapeshifters there. When Trent the transformer king or Dolph the 
shapeshifter prince did their magic, the transformed being felt urges 
of the animal form and had to be careful how long they were chamged. 
When Trent changed Bink into a Salimander to fight a foe, Bink had 
the salimanderish urge to burn everything.

In the Potterverse, the 'Fantastic Beasts' writes there are few 
flying anamagi as the bat or bird brain forgets where there going. I 
wonder about the Anamagi in the Potterverse and how their animal 
urges affect them. As far as the cat and dog of McGonagall and Black, 
both animal forms are intelligent and resonably tame. But what about 
the Beetle of Rita Skeeter and Rat of Pettigrew?

Pettigrew spent several years in rat-form and if anyone ever coulod 
be described as rattish, it was the Pettigrew of PofA and GofF.

Was Skeeter affected by the buglike urges of her beetle form? I feel 
she was buglike to begin with, but her nature may have affected what 
form she tookwhen she became an anahagus.

BTW does the wizard choose there anamagi form or is it dictated by 
their nature? I could picture Darco Malfoy studying to become an 
anamagi and becoming a dungbeetle.

Opinions?
Uncmark