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

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 116751


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ginnysthe1" <ginnysthe1 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> So I agree that canon does say that a wand isn't necessary for 
> animagi to transform.  It's canon via Lupin, but there's no reason 
to 
> think he was being inaccurate.  And there are other examples of 
> wandless transformation as well, as you say.  Actually I always 
> thought that *not* needing a wand did make more sense, especially 
for 
> one of the reasons that you pointed out (i.e. how would a rat, cat, 
> etc. use a wand to change back into human form?), but it was just 
> that the scene in the book (bolstered by the movie scene) implied 
to 
> me that Peter had used a wand to transform himself.  What still 
> bothers me about the book version is that it's not an innate 
ability 
> (not with those 3 animagi anyway) and yet it also doesn't require a 
> wand or a potion.
> 

imamommy:

I don't quite know what it's like; maybe like gaining fluency in a 
foreign language, so that eventually the person can read, comprehend, 
speak and even think (and dream) in that language?  But different.  
It seems to me that there is definitely a point where one *becomes* 
an animagus, but I wonder what must be done to get to that point.

On a side note, do you think a person's animagus animal must always 
correspond with there patronus animal?  James is the only person I 
remember knowing this about, but I can't think of any contradictions 
to this theory.

Off this topic completely, if Thestrals are fleshless, do they have 
guts and, if so, what holds them in?  If not, how do they digest the 
meat that they eat?

imamommy