[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi and animal minds

[Sandi Steinberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 36630




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>Uncmark had asked >>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.<<
>
>Abigail Draconi noted: Personally, I favor the dictated by nature form of 
>anamagi creation.  >Even if it *is* up to the wizard to choose, their 
>nature would guide them to the form they choose. ...I don't see Draco as a 
>dungbeetle. A peacock or a rooster, maybe. Some sort of animal that struts 
>around to impress.

I agree.  I think that Rita Skeeter would NEVER become a beetle if it were 
not for her overweening competitiveness and the need to snoop in a form that 
would never be seen as snooping.  Given her personal choice, she'd be 
something FAAARRRRRR grander, a Common Welsh Green, perhaps, since poison 
green is her color (speaking of Green things in the series.  Crocodilians 
are probably out; certainly not native to Britain.

Draco, who fashions himself a jock as the Slytherin seeker would probably 
want an alter ego that was both elegant and fearsome: a king cobra (again, 
not exactly something you'd come across on a walk in an English 
field)perhaps, or an eagle.  While I like the peacock analogy, I don't think 
it's commanding enough for the young man's ego.

Sandi Steinberg

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