Animagi. - Never Unlikely Animals?

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 45713

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Georgette Tan <tarlia at p...> wrote:
 > I'm trying to remember if the books mentioned wizards being able 
to choose their animal forms... or if it gets
> predetermined based on their character. If they get to choose, I'm 
pretty sure James, Sirius and Peter would pick
> creatures that are native, or at least, inconspicuous where they 
intend to do most of their roaming.
> 
> As for Rita Skeeter, she should have been a mosquito but they don't 
tend to live long and you can't appreciate
> little spectacle markings on a squashed insect. 
<snip> 
 > Rita's case more or less convinced me that they get to choose 
their form. If they don't, and she just happened to
> be a beetle, it feels too convenient (plot-wise) to me.
> 
  
I tend to disagree. After all, Rita Skeeter is a living beetle, 
always buzzing around, to get informations, so I it is no wonder, 
that this is her animagus form. Mosquitos don't live very long, but 
neither did beetles, and I can't help but imagine sometime, what 
would have happened, if a hungry bird had spotted her. And although 
Peter is evil, and I can't imagine that he choosed to be a rat. I 
mean, who would? There are other smale characters who can open, even 
Crookshanks was small enough to do so.  
Hickengruendler