Animagi and Musings on FB&WTFT

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 27/10/2002 12:19:10, Malady579 at hotmail.com (Melody) writes:
As a dog, Black still felt the emotions > and thoughts, but it is the 
> dementors that were fooled.  They could only sense that a human was not 
> there.
> Maybe that gives strength to the fact that when an animagi wizard
> transforms, they really transform to fool everyone.  

Me:
Not everyone.  Crookshanks could tell that both Peter and Sirius were not 
animals.  I would think that kneazles' and Dementors' "sixth sense" would 
operate on the same wavelength.  They both seem to be able to pick up human 
emotions.  However, I think I have an explanation now as to why the Dementors 
did not recognize dog-Sirius as human. 

In a message dated 27/10/2002, smiller_92407 at yahoo.com (Constance) writes:
> In the very beginning of canon, we are 
> introduced to a cat reading a map. If that's not abstract thinking, I 
> don't know what is. Prof. McGonagall maintains her humanity while 
> 

Me:
That's right. Cats' brains do not possess language centers that could 
interpret the words on the map.  Therefore, while transformed, an Animagi's 
human consciousness can still be accessed when necessary, which leads to my 
explanation:

The human consciousness is buried so deep in the animal consciousness that it 
is only detectable when it is being accessed.  When Sirius transformed into a 
dog in Azkaban he left his human consciousness buried.  He did not access it. 
 This served both to escape his own emotions and to go undetected by the 
Dementors.  

When Sirius met Crookshanks, he was accessing his human consciousness to 
process spoken language and read, and Crookshanks picked up on it.  Peter 
must have also been accessing his human consciousness to process the 
information about Sirius, and Crookshanks picked up on that as well as his 
ill intentions.

How does that grab ya?

--Audra


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