[HPforGrownups] Re: Krum...an animagus?? (was Karkaroff...an animagus??)

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 45598



> -----Original Message-----
> From: hickengruendler [mailto:hickengruendler at yahoo.de] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Krum...an animagus?? (was 
> Karkaroff...an animagus??)
> 
> 
> Real-To:  "hickengruendler" <hickengruendler at yahoo.de>
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
>   but the point is, 
> > people can transfigure themselves without being Animagi.
> > 
> > Amy Z ----
> 
> Yes, I agree with you in general, but there is a big problem. If 
> every wizard can turn into an animal, than what's the whole animagi 
> thing about? What's the difference between able to transform myself 
> into an animal, and beeing an animagus? Also, aren't all wizard who 
> can transform themselves into animals unregistered animagi? 

It's not a problem at all. JKR addressed this in Fantastic Beasts quite
clearly,where she said that transfiguration into an animal means that
the transfigured person has the animalian brain - in other words, when
Draco was transfigured into a ferrett, he had a ferrett brain, not a
wizard's one. 

Also in GoF, it's implied that Krum's transformation was not a wandless
one, and it's clear from PoA as well that the animagus transformation is
wandless. 

Heidi