Being an animagus?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 94999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amycrn4230" <amycrn4230 at y...>
wrote:
> This is my first post, so hello all...
> 
> 
> Here is my question...In the chat with JKR recently she says that a 
> person who studies to be an animagus cannot choose what they are to 
> become, and in the PoA, I got the impression that the boys picked 
> their animals in order to be big enough to "control" the werewolf
> (Remus)??? .... 
> How did a stag fit in that tiny passageway to the shrieking shack? 
> ...
> 
> AmyC


bboy_mn:

JKR has said more than once that you can't pick your animagus form,
but I have a theory...

The animagus process is long and difficult, and it's very very
possible that your resulting animal might be worthless. What if you
animal form was a worm? Hardly worth the risky process if all you are
in the end is a worm. 

So, I theories that as part of the animagus process, you are able to
find out in advance what your animal for will be. Then you can decide
if you want to continue with the process.

As far as Sirius and James animal forms, they do fit their
personalities, and I think once they found out what everyone's form
would be, they strategized to determine how they could best use those
forms to achieve their end. 

As it turned out two of the three (James and Sirius) were big enough
that they dared leave the Shrieking Shack because they were confident
they could control a werewolf. If they had other forms, weaker animal
forms, then perhaps leaving the Shrieking Shack wouldn't have been an
option. Again, they simply used the animal forms the recieve to their
best advantage. Other form would have indicated other strategies and
other courses of action.


I think other's have answered your 'tunnel' question, I will expand on
what they said. First we don't know for a fact that James, the largest
animal, actually went through the tunnel as a Stag. Perhaps, he went
through as a human with Sirius-the dog in the lead. Sirius went into
the Shack first to control Lupin while James transformed at the Shack
end of the tunnel or in the Shack itself.

Later, when they left the Shack on their monthly adventures, there
would be no need for James go into the Shack at all. He could just
meet everyone else in the forest, and the adventure could continue
from there.

How do I know all this? Well... I don't. I just make it up as I go
along, but I DO try to make up things that are likely. Many things are
possible but few are likely.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn