The Animagi was Re: Giving the map to Lupin (Was: Lupin's vampire essay)

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No: HPFGUIDX 90182

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
>Um, no. The Prank was probably in their sixth year, but the
Animagi outings began in the fifth, as Remus says in PoA,
"Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it."

Bookworm: 
The full quote is: 
"It took them [James and Sirius] the best part of three years to 
work out how to" become animagi....Peter needed all the help he 
could get...in our fifth year they managed it."  (POA, p354, US 
hardcover)

So by the end of their 3rd year or beginning of their 4th, James and 
Sirius were anamagi.  It was Peter who couldn't do it until their 
5th year.  

I think that Remus would have had to go to the Shrieking Shack every 
month to transform because Madam Pomfrey escorted him to the 
Whomping Willow.  If they didn't continue that pattern, Madam 
Pomfrey, Dumbledore, etc. would have wondered why.  (It is possible 
that Dumbledore already knew, but that's another topic...) Once in 
the Shack, the others would join Remus and lead him out again when 
the `coast was clear.'

Ravenclaw Bookworm