Stellar Brothers

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 85586

Aannemehr wrote:
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> Annemehr:
> Actually, it seems pretty certain that you *don't* get to chose your
> animagus form.
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While I like the idea of animagus *not* being able 
to choose their form, if you can't choose your form, 
then how would James, Sirius and Peter have known 
their plan would work?  They could have wasted a 
lot of time and energy just to become animals that 
would not have suited their needs.

I understand that werewolves are dangerous to humans 
not other animals, so that part would work regardless, 
however how did they know that two of them would be 
"large" enough to "keep a werewolf in check" and that 
one would be small enough to "slip beneath the 
Willow's attacking branches and touch the knot that 
freezes it."

One answer I came up with is that through the process 
of becoming an animagus, they must have gotten an idea 
of what kind of animal they would be.

The other is that they decided to become animagi not 
knowing exactly what would happen, but determined to 
try *something* to help Lupin.  The idea of James, 
Sirius, and Peter doing the later would go a long 
way toward justifying Lupin's reluctance to betray 
their trust in POA.

Yolanda