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[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 55963

Hey Tom,

Sorry I cant precisely remember where I read that it was an excerpt 
from an interview. I think was on Harry Potter Lexicon but it could 
have been another page. Anyway it was in a link titled Mysteries or 
sonmething like that listed under Those which are confirmed by Jk 
herself. A student from a school asked the particular question will 
any of the students become animagii and JK replied in the manner I 
previously posted.

It spawned a bevvy of postings on that particular site from all and 
sundry trying to guess which student was most likely to perform 
animagus by the end of seventh year.

Most of course firstly assumed Harry and Hermione which is plausible,
as they are intelligent. But PoA firmly distinguishes and is backed 
up in in GoF by the Krummy shark, the probability of successful 
animagus transfiguration is a matter of devoted practice for some 
length of time. 

In PoA I believe the reference to Sirius and James as 
being the most intelligent students that Lupin knows and GoF when 
Krum only manages a disfigured halfway transformation is better 
translated as canon that it is not the level of the wizards or 
witches intelligence that dictates their ability to transform. 

These high ranking students, James and Sirius with Lupins obvious 
admiration and Krum the quidditch prodigy and representative of the 
Durmstrang school at the Tri-wizard tournament, were yet hard pressed 
to manage the transformation.

I suppose Ginny may illegally transfigure, it is as likely to happen 
as not.

THe canon clue is that the Tom Riddle diary was hidden in the 
transfiguration book that belonged to Ginny weasley in Flourish and 
Blotts by Lucius Malfoy. <CoS> On the way to platform 9 and three 
quarters Ginny cried out to the family that they must return home for 
her diary. Ginny had already opened and preread her transfiguration 
book then hadnt she!? Before her first transfiguration class. 

Now perhaps she was simply a diligent student taking an interest in all 
her books or perhaps she simply stumbled across the diary by 
accident. But the probability that she had some prior interest in the 
power of transfiguration in definitely canonised in these two 
chapters of CoS.

A further point of interest. 
Note that in the first book James wand was purported to be mahogany 
pliable and excellent for transfiguration. James was a graceful and 
magical animagus and his wand dictated that he would be.  

If we are to presume that anyone of the Hogwarts students we know 
will become animagi we should probably take a look at their wands for 
a clue. It wont be Ron his is Willow. PoA chapter four.

Thats it? Thats it...

TheValk speaks