[HPforGrownups] Animagi, animals and other puzzles

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 60147

Kneasy:
And why do they have to be registered? Registered, note; not just passing a test as in 
Apparating. No registration needed to perform Transfiguration charms such as the 
one that Moody performed on Draco; so what's the difference?

Me:
Registration is to lessen the possibility of spying, I suppose, when you know what a person is supposed to transform into, and any special markings, for identification purposes. I've got my response to transfiguration below.

Kneasy:
So why Animagi? Why not Transfiguration instead? Maybe there's something we 
haven't yet been told because I don't believe that JKR would carry redundancy this far 
without good reason.

Taryn:
In Transfiguration, you do not keep your own human mind. As quoted from QTTA:

"The witch or wizard who finds him- or herself transfigured into a bat may take to the air, but, having a bat's brain, they are sure to forget where they want to go the moment they take flight."

It also seems to me that you'd be in great danger of getting stuck that way, too.

Kneasy:
A female will be DADA teacher. But in which book? So far this position has been a 
revolving door with a new incumbent every volume.

Taryn:
We know for certain that there's a female DADA teacher in Book 5. After 5...who knows?
Lizo: Is there anything that you can tell us about book five? Any new characters? 

JK: Well, we've obviously got a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher because Professor Moody wouldn't want the job again having been locked in a trunk for a year! It's a woman this time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2269000/2269270.stm

--Taryn


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