Animagus properties, Thestral guts (was Re: Is Harry a Metamorphmagus?)

[ginnysthe1]

No: HPFGUIDX 117101


Hi!  To Patrick, from Kim:

Just to clarify, when you wrote "Kim wrote: On a side note, do you 
think a person's animagus animal must always correspond with their 
patronus animal?"  It wasn't me (Kim) writing that -- I think that 
question came from Imamommy.  My longwinded (as usual) response was 
in post 117084 (I think).

Now Kim responds to Patrick's post:

Patrick wrote (in reply to Imamommy's(?) question above):

>This may have already been said, but my thought had always been that 
> the animagus form corresponded directly to personality traits or 
> the "inner self".  It always seemed fitting to me that James became
> a stag while less "desirable" people became beetles and rats (Rita
> and Peter).  Perhaps animagi don't have much control over the
> animal they become...gods help the person whose inner self is an
> elephant... <<

Kim now:

I'm pretty sure that that has already been said someplace before on 
this list, and I think it may have originally come from someone 
quoting something JKR said.  Unfortunately I'm really not that good 
at searching the archives to find relevant earlier posts.  But no 
matter -- maybe you'd have better luck with that than me. 

In any case, to summarize what seems to be true about Animagi, yes, I 
agree with you, they seem to correspond to the personality traits of 
the wizard: Rita's a beetle, Peter's a rat, Sirius is a big black 
dog, James is a stag, McGonagall's a cat -- is that the full list of 
Animagi as we know it so far from canon?  Those animals all seem to 
imply the personality type of the witch or wizard.  It would be nice 
though to expound a little on why specifically a beetle fits Rita 
Skeeter, a stag James, a cat McGonagall, etc. -- any takers??  It 
also seems to be true on reflection, that so far Animagi animals 
aren't "magical" or "WW-only" animals, such as dragons or blast-ended 
skrewts -- none that we know of anyhow. 

Then we're still not sure if Dumbledore's an Animagus or not (is he a 
bumblebee as his name implies or some other bug?  Other posters, 
myself included, have discussed DD's Animagus in recent past posts); 
and we can't say Lupin's inner self is a werewolf since Lupin isn't 
actually an Animagus.

It's also been suggested by someone on the list (whose name escapes 
me), and I concur, that Fawkes may be the Animagus of Godric 
Gryffindor (or did I suggest that?  Yep, I think it was me).  
Actually I think the other poster suggested that if Harry does turn 
out to have an Animagus, that it might be a Phoenix.

Anyhow, what do you think about any or all of the above? 

Cheers,
 
Kim (whose animagus couldn't be an elephant on account of her poor 
memory for previous posts and other posters' names ;-))