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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