[HPforGrownups] Animagi, animals and other puzzles

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 60146

>Is it my imagination or has there been a small out break of animagitis 
>recently?
>Theories on who is/isn't/might be abound; Jungle Book, here we come!
>
>Animagi are supposed to be rare. I seem to recall a passage " there's only 
>eight
>registered with the Ministry" from somewhere. Yet so far we've met four, 
>only one of
>which is registered ( McGonagall ), with knowledge of a fifth - James 
>Potter. How rare
>can they be?
Kneasy -

I have to agree, and I confess it's one of my rare points of curmudgeonry 
with JKR.  Although maybe I'm taking this in a slighlty different direction 
than you meant:  I wish she hadn't said it was 'rare'.  It's a convenient 
device, and finding, "Oops, just one more unregistered animagus..." makes 
the whole concept unsound.

Having said it, if she later regretted it, I wish she'd come up with another 
plot device to cover animal transformations - well, the patronus is sort of 
one.  I still think Mrs. Norris was a victim of one of Filch's botched 
transfiguration spells, and she's stuck in that form.

Felinia

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