The Useless Animagus

Anne urbana at charter.net
Thu Mar 13 01:29:13 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 53672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "buddhacat" <buddhacat at y...> 
wrote:

>  But, even if forms are not chosen, which came 
> first, the animal form or the profession?  I mean, what if Rita 
> became a reporter because it suited her insect form?  And maybe 
> Minerva is used to inflitrate Muggle areas because she can turn 
into 
> a cat, not the other way around.  So maybe the needs are perfectly 
> adapted to the animal form, rather than the form being perfectly 
> adapted to the needs.

AHA!! Good pick-up. As a journalist myself, I understand Rita's urge 
(some might say obsession) to try to find out *everything* about 
Harry. If she was already an animagus when she finished Hogwarts, it 
might have occurred to her that being a beetle would enable her to 
gain access to places where she could act as the proverbial "fly on 
the wall"... or in her case, "beetle on the ledge". Being a 
journalist (albeit a "yellow journalist" IMO) would enable Rita to 
use her animagus form to her own very distinct advantage. Of course 
to really be a fly on the wall she'd have to be, well, a fly.

> 
> Against this theory is the giveaway names, Sirius and Lupin and so 
> on.  I'm reminded of an old joke by Dennis Leary: "Lou Gehrig.  
Died 
> of Lou Gehrig's disease.  How'd he not see THAT one coming?"  

So perhaps Rita Skeeter should be a mosquito?? :-) Does the U.K. even 
have mosquitoes?? I certainly hope not; they are horrid creatures 
whose sole purpose in life is to suck blood out of humans. On second 
thought that sounds just like Rita.

Anne U
(who would probably be a hippo)






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