Is Harry a Metamorphmagus?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117270


Kim wrote:
><snip> What I read in that passage is that Peter had had the wand 
> in hand for just long enough to start the process of "rat 
> transformation" before Harry's "Expelliarmus!" knocked the wand out 
> of his hand.  I realize it doesn't say that explicitly, but I also 
> don't think there would have been a bang and burst of light for a 
> self-transfiguration spell anyway, so that part is naturally missing 
> from what's written.  And the "Too late" implies (to me anyway) that 
> Harry had been too late in expelling Lupin's wand away from Peter and 
> so Peter'd been able to transform himself back into Scabbers right 
> before. <snip>

Carol responds:
What about Sirius, who certainly didn't have a wand when he
transformed himself into a dog to escape Azkaban, and still didn't
have one as late as the Shrieking Shack scene? (He used Snape's wand
to threaten Pettigrew, and earlier intended to kill him with a
twelve-inch knife.)

Carol, with apologies for the short post