Sirius' Death & animagus transformations

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 119629


Brodeur:
> Hello everyone! I was wondering something. When Sirius died at 
the  
> department of mysteries, his human self had been gone and 
apparently 
> lost  forever. Do you think that it is possible that the human 
part 
> of you can die and the animagus part live? I Know that it sounds a 
> little farfetched but after all Peter Pettigrew had lived on after 
> his incident and nobody knew about it for years later.

Jen: I guess JKR could do anything she wants, although this might be 
difficult to make believable. Peter wasn't dead after all, and it 
does seem to be a complicated process for a human to transform. 
Implausible but not impossible?!?

Which reminds me, why does it take such complexity for a wizard to 
learn how to transform into an animal, but an animal brain can make 
the required calculations to turn back into a human? Is it some 
issue of cellular matter, where your original form is easier to 
transform back into? 

It seems like in animal form the wizard is still choosing whether to 
transform back to human or not. Sirius and Remus had to force Peter 
to transform and Sirius could sense when he should stay an animal at 
Azkaban.

Jen