Marauding Rita

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 88974

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peter Felix Schuster" 
<pfsch at g...> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> An idea that just came up in my mind (forgive if I'm the 100th to 
> ask). Rita being an animaga and MWPP being animagi brought up the 
> question if she taught them those skills perhaps (not as a Hogwarts 
> teacher I mean). Or if they learned those together. She being 43 
> (1994) and Snape 35-36 (1995/6) leaves a small chance that they met 
> at Hogwarts in their first year and perhaps maintained contact 
> afterwards (her being perhaps employed in Hogsmead).

Marianne responds:
I don't think Rita had anything to do with MWP becoming Animagi.  
When Remus speaks of it in PoA, he seems to imply that the boys 
figured it out on their own. Plus, Peter needed help from James and 
Sirius to succeed in this. No mention of Rita.  

Peter:
> Who's responsible in the MoM for registering animagi anyway? 
Whoever 
> was in charge to control the observance of the animagus 
registration 
> rules in those times cannot have done quite a good job: 4 
unregistered 
> animagi, maybe more to come, only 7 registered in that century 
(PoA).

Well, I wonder if this is all on the honor system.  If someone 
figured out how to become an Animagus,  how would whoever was 
responsible in the MoM for registering these people know?  I mean, 
unless there was some method of tracing budding Animagi, how would 
the MoM have any clue?

Marianne