[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi (was: Three topics of interest - for comments

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 68598

At 00:42 +0000 on 07/06/2003, amanitamuscaria1 wrote about 
[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi (was: Three topics of interest :

>"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
>>  Is a person's Patronus always an animal? Is it always the same
>animal
>>  as their Animagus form?
>*snip*
>
>ME- I'm somewhat puzzled by this myself, as Harry's patronus is
>described as 'charging down' the dementors - I somehow can't see an
>otter charging down anything - maybe nipping round the ankles, but
>not a full-frontal attack. A swan would be fine, can be pretty
>vicious. I'm wondering if perhaps Harry hasn't served his fellow DA's
>very well, and by not giving them a believable enemy, the patronuses
>conjured won't be effective if it comes to the crunch?

I get the impression that the Patronus works against Dementors by 
just existing not by a physical attack. Remember that there was a big 
deal made about the fact that Harry could produce a PHYSICAL Patronus 
(not just the IMAGE of one [or are we talking about the same thing 
and I am confusing the ability to give the Patronus a form with 
giving that form solidity]). We do not know if the others were 
physical also or just good images of their forms. If it is just by 
existing (and via projection [ie: Being a manifestation] of the Good 
Feelings needed to evoke the Patronus) then just running at a 
Dementor "to get into range" would serve as an attack.


At 23:59 +0000 on 07/05/2003, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote 
about [HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi (was: Three topics of interest :

>I have a theory that a female werewolf cannot bear children because
>the monthly transformation is too hard on the fetus; she always
>miscarries because of the first or sometimes the second Full Moon
>after conception.

A restriction already used in one of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita 
Blake books ("Narcissus in Chains") where there was a problem with 
female shape shifters carrying a baby to term.


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Bob Rosenberg