[HPforGrownups] Re: Stellar Brothers

[IggyMcSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 85544

Iggy wrote:
>> This info makes it all the more significant that Sirius's chosen
>> Animagus form was a large, midnight black dog... doesn't it?  *grin*

>Marianne:
>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 here:

Nope.

While I don't have the book handy (and if anyone can find the quote for
me, I would be grateful) Lupin told Harry that Sirius and James had
chosen forms that would be capable of dealing with a large wolf.

The form you become as an Animagus is not something that's "assigned" to
you.  It comes from what you chose to become, and often is a form that
has advantages you seek out yourself.

Rita Skeeter chose a flying beetle because it would allow her to seek
out stories and get info by being a "fly on the wall," as it were.  (Of
course, Skeeter is also a Southern term for "Mosquito", so the name fits
in well there too.  *grin*)

James chose a stag, and Sirius chose a large black dog (I think it was
described as looking like a Mastiff... and if any of you who have seen
would know, that's one *big* dog... usually only topped in sheer mass by
a St. Bernard... and then only sometimes.) because their forms could
deal with a wolf when needed.

Peter became a rat because it would allow him to scout out information,
and also because it would allow him to slip up to the Whomping Willow's
trunk and touch the knot that "put it to sleep" for a little while.


It's not your Animagus form that you don't actively chose, but the form
of your Patronus that comes from something inside you and isn't chosen
by the caster.  (In some cases, it is probably chosen as an animal that
you have a particular affinity for.)



Iggy McSnurd