Is your Patronus the same as your Animagus?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 127128


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145":
 
> Rowling answers that your personality dictates what animal your 
> animagus is:
> 
> America Online chat transcript, AOL.com, 19 October 2000 
> Does the animal one turns into as an Animagi reflect your 
> personality? 
> Very well deduced, Narri! I personally would like to think that I 
> would transform into an otter, which is my favorite animal. Imagine 
> how horrible it would be if I turned out to be a cockroach!  
>                                                  
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> So if Dumbledore's personality is representative of a phoenix and 
> your personality shows what type of animagus you would become, 
> wouldn't Dumbledore's animagus be a phoenix? Rowling answered that 
> Dumbledore's patronus was a phoenix so I would have to believe that 
> the patronus and animagus would be the same animal. 

Finwitch:

I'd say that, they could be, but are not so by default. Your Patronus
takes a form by which you feel protected, safe - maybe even happy.
Harry feels protected by his father (thus, his Patronus is not merely
a stag, but *Prongs*) And the night he cast his first Corporeal
Patronus - was the night when the *idea* of his father protected his
sanity - and that he thought that *his father* had been the one to
send that Patronus.

Me, I see Harry's nature to be more like a bird (natural flyer) than a
stag (OK, so James was good in Quidditch, too). He felt caged in CoS -
much like poor Hedwig. He narrowly escapes death several times.  
We'll never know - as JKR told us Harry won't become an animagus - but
I think if he did, he'd be a bird. A sparrow, maybe. Or a robin.

As for Dumbledore, he feels protected by Fawkes. With all the losses
he's seen, Fawkes will *never* truly leave him. The rebirth of the
Phoenix gives him hope in the face of the closing death. The loyal
Phoenix *has* rescued him - taken the AK for him - carried him away -
selling Fawkes' feathers saved him from extreme poverty (and he'd be
able to make a wand if he ever lost his using a feather of Fawkes') -
the Phoenix song encouraging him when he feels down... tears healing
him even from something as lethal as the basilisk-poison (as well as
puncturing the lethal eyes of the snake)... but mostly, I think, the
FAITHFUL. 'they make very _faithful_ pets' -- why did Dumbledore
emphasize the word *faithful*? Only Harry's *true loyalty* to
Dumbledore could summon Fawkes to him. Guess Fawkes also helps him to
trust.

About Dumbledore's animagi - he's too trusting to be a bird. Birds are
generally NOT very trusting. They'd fly away if you try to go near,
you know. Dumbledore has tendency to like sweets (all those passwords)
and he cares for the young, refusing a higher post while still trying
to influence everyone. I see him as a bee or an ant -- a very social
being, staying near the same place and liking sweet... Or maybe he's a
Demiguise-animagus, thus being able to become invisible without a cloak.

Finwitch