[HPforGrownups] Hopes for Book 5

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59069

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Chuck wrote:

> Things I hope to see and not see in book 5
> 
> Enough with the Animagi.
> So there's this registration thing we're told.  So being an Animagi 
> is very rare we're told.  Keep it so.  No Neville the fish.  No Snape 
> the vampire. No Mrs. Figg the Crookshanks.  Let Rita Skeeter be the 
> last one.  Time to move on to a new plot device.

In all fairness, vampires are fundamentally different creatures than
animagi, so if Snape turns out to be one it wouldn't be the same old
'unregistered animagus' gimmick once again.  I do hope we get to see a
vampire eventually since there have been so many mentions of them in the
books, but I'm not particularly fond of the notion that Snape is one.  I
don't feel a compelling need to ever see a new animagus in the series
though.

Other than that, I think your post is spot on.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"