Human's Emotions vs. Dogs (Re: Sirius revisited)

[smartone564]

No: HPFGUIDX 104359

Kneasy wrote:

> Stags and dogs hate
> and fear wolves. A very basic emotion, yet James and Sirius
> romp over the countryside with one. Which emotions are being
> expressed - the animal, or are the human ones of friendship
> and protectiveness at work?

A few years ago, I read a popular series, that eventually was 
shown into a horrible tv show (low budget type thing).  It was 
called 'Animorphs', if some of you remember that, and the main 
characters turned into animals to fight the bad aliens.  When they 
did this, the basic mind of the animal was 'in' the mind with 
them.  This animal mind held all the basic instincts that would 
have been hard to explain otherwise, such as flying as birds, 
using multiple legs (i.e. 4 for many animals), and even 
comprehending the near 360 degrees of a bug's eyes.  These 
people could 'lose themselves' and submit to the animal mind, 
or control it in a way, so it does what they needed it to, but how 
the animal would (for example, running, but the animal controls 
the four legs which are unusual for the person).

Although it's really besides the point, the series got very dull and 
repetitive, however, I think that becoming an animagus is similar 
to this.  Sirius/James could have forced the animal minds to 
ignore the werewolf (and btw, there is canon somewhere about 
werewolves only being a danger to people) and have run around.  
However, when Sirius escaped from Azkaban, he could have 
submitted to the dog's mind, and as dogs frequently wander 
around in a new place, it wouldn't take much effort to nudge the 
dog out the door.

Smart