[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi revisited was: Sirius revisited

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 104196

[Kneasy wrote]:
| Spying? In the Shrieking Shack Lupin and Sirius use a spell to force
| Pettigrew back into human form, so any animal wandering around
| Voldy's squat would no doubt get the treatment. No chance of
| James disguising himself as a hat-rack, for instance.

[Lee]:
Yes, and Sirius and Lupin *knew* that Peter was an animagus, which was why
they could re-transform him.  If someone, like Rita, for example, is
crawling around and no one knows she's an animagus, she wouldn't have to
worry about her human identity being discovered...except if she ran into
someone with good deductive powers like Hermione. :-)

[Kneasy]:
| Interestingly JKR doesn't seem to like unregistered Animagi much.
| Just look at what happens to them - James dead, Sirius dead, Rita
| humbled, Peter now an amputee Igor to Voldy. Not friendly at all.
| Do you think she's trying to tell us something?

[Lee]:
But of course! :-)

Seriously, in RL, people with certain Marshall Arts skills are registered
with the government because they can be used as weapons...at least, this is
what I understood from a gentleman I knew about 20 years ago who was an
Eighth Degree Black Belt.  So, let's take this into the WW; The MOM wants to
have the animagi registered so they can track down those who might go bad,
perhaps use those who have spy-worthy or other talents, etc.  And, perhaps
it's just one of those bureaucratic things to give someone a job...register
and keep tabs on all the animagi in the WW.

However, how many people are driving without licenses? How many own guns
without licensing and registration?  Same can be said for animagi...probably
a few out there who hope they won't get caught.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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