[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi reproducing?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 90784

KG:
> Just for fun (and to make your head spin), imagine what would happen
> if a wizard in animagus form accidentally mated with an animal of
> the species they turned into. (For example, pretend that McGonagall
> accidentally mated with a cat or kneazle while in cat form). Would
> the offspring be half-human but in cat form? Kneazles are supposed
> to be very smart; imagine a half-human half kneazle running around.

Me:
Another question occurs to me: Assuming the theories that Sirius is
gay are correct, is he still gay as a dog, or might he have mated with
a bitch (a canine one, not Umbridge)?

Carol:
j> I'm not sure how far I want to go with this idea given that the HP
j> series is (at least in theory) intended for children...

JKR has denied HP has any "target audience", and besides which, the
Oz books were most definitely originally intended for children, and
yet that doesn't stop people making all sorts of "Adult" speculations
(and new stories!) about Baum's universe.

j> ... but we do have
j> the pairing of Hagrid's wizard father and giant(ess) mother, which
j> rather boggles the mind...

Not half so mind-boggling as if the *male* is the giant!

j> But your theory could plausibly account for the origin of
j> centaurs (an animagus in horse form and a real horse). It seems
j> preferable to the alternative (a horse and a woman or a mare and a
j> man). Ugh.

We really don't know how hybrid magical creatures come into being in
the Potterverse.  Does it say anywhere for certain that Hagrid
actually *crossbred* (in the genetic sense) a fire crab and a manticore
to create the Blast-Ended Skrewts?


One other animagus question I've always had: Are animagi limited to
extant and non-magical animals?  Or could your animagus be a dragon,
say, or a hippogriff, or even a dinosaur?  If so, I like to speculate
that if Lily *were* an animagus (Hasn't Jo said in interviews that
she wasn't?), she would have been a unicorn.

-- 
Dave, wizard in training
Wand: 10-inch, unicorn hair
Animagus form: The dinosaur _Oviraptor_
Patronus: A mermaid, whose human component resembles a rising young
           opera/choral diva.

:) :)