The Useless Animagus

psychodudeneo psychomaverick at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 12 03:29:07 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 53620

Something's been annoying me.  Wizards aren't allowed to choose their 
Animagus form, although one would hardly be able to tell this from 
the books.

Every Animagus we've seen so far has been perfectly adapted to that 
wizard's needs.  Prongs and Padfoot were strong enough to keep Moony 
in line, with Wormtail useful for things such as deactivating the 
whomping willow.

Minerva's cat form is ideal for sneaking around Muggle areas 
unnoticed.

Rita's bug form was perfect for her spy routine.

To drive the point home, I hope that we finally see a long-
awaited "Absolutely Useless Animags".  I'm talking about an animal 
for completely and utterly unfit for whatever the Wizard had been 
planning on doing.

For instance, an assasin who has the ability to become a 3 ton male 
rhinoceros.

A mountaineer who becomes 570 pounds of sea lion.

A fierce criminal who becomes a dodo.

That sort of thing.  Just validation that the animagus magic doesn't 
always work out as planned.  "Who killed this man?" "I think I saw a 
rhino hiding behind that shrub, but I can't be sure.  It may have 
been a fat unicorn."

"psychodudeneo"






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