Over Kill with Dementors

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 98095

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Siriusly Snapey Susan [who's spelling out the whole thing 
 Regardless of the answer to that, I guess my main question is 
still, "WHATEVER type of emotion Sirius was experiencing, can 
 Dementors FORCE someone in animagus form to transform 
back into human form?"  <snip snip>That is, I don't think Sirius 
was having to concentrate  on staying Padfoot and the 
Dementors somehow broke that  concentration.  So can they 
really MAKE him perform the magic that  would transform himself 
back to human? 


Pippin:

I think we're seeing this differently <g>  IMO, although Sirius may 
not need to do magic to remain in his dog form, it is still his 
magical nature that allows him to be a dog. Drained of magic, he 
reverts to human form. 

Siriusly Snapey Susan:
 >But would  Sirius not have recognized that Lupin was mentally 
"with it" and just  play-acting at attacking?  <

Pippin:
Hmmm...that would be a stronger objection if Sirius had ever 
seen a  werewolf in its "natural" state. But he can't have. 

"Under [the animagi's] influence, I became less dangerous. My 
body was still wolfish, but my mind seemed to become less so 
while I was with them." --PoA ch 18

Pippin