[HPforGrownups] Voldemort and Grindelwald

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 50892


--- ArtsyLynda at aol.com wrote:

> If Harry's dad and his buddies could figure out how
> to Transfigure themselves 
> into animals (I remember reading -- can't quote
> where -- that they "worked it 
> out" themselves -- dunno why they wouldn't have
> learned it from McGonagal), 

There's a big difference between transfiguring and
becoming an animagus.  Yes, eventually they would
probably learn how to transfigure into something else
(like Krum's attempt to transfigure into a shark for
the second task) in their transfiguration class, but
that's something totally different from actually
becoming an animagus.  I think you can probably only
Transfigure something for a certain period of time,
while you could transform into your animagus form for
years (Petigrew for example) which is why you don't
have to register to be allowed to Transfigure. 
They're similar, but different at the same time.

~Kathryn

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