Stellar Brothers

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 85514

> >From: canismajorette 
> 
> >Indeed these two brothers are named for prominent stars located in 
a 
> >relatively compact region of the celestial sphere.  Sirius is of 
> >course Alpha Canis Major, the brightest star in the constellation 
of 
> >the Greater Dog.  Regulus is Alpha Leo, the brightest star in the 
> >constellation Leo.  Canis Major (Latin for the Greater Dog) and 
Leo 
> >(Latin for Lion) 
> 
> Iggy here:
> 
> This info makes it all the more significant that Sirius's chosen
> Anumagus form was a large, midnight black dog... doesn't it?  *grin*

Now me:
Except that the witch/wizard does not choose her/his Animagus form.  
Sirius becoming a big, black dog just coincidently fits into this 
discussion. ;-).  He could just as well have turned into a black 
cocker spaniel...

Iggy:
> One would also be inclined to wonder if Regulus was an Animagus as 
well,
> and whether his alternate form was a lion.

Me:
Regulus strikes me as someone who eagerly followed the path that was 
set out for him by the people who had the most influence over him at 
the time.  Early in his life that would have been his purity crazed 
parents.  Later on, once he became a DE recruit, he could have been 
influenced by people such as Lucius Malfoy or his lieutenants.  I 
think that if Regulus had been an Animagus, he would have been a 
sheep.  A black sheep, perhaps, but a sheep nonetheless.
 
Marianne