Is your Patronus vs your Animagus?

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 127140


> bboyminn:
>
><snip bit about guardian angel/spirit guide, which I agree with>
>
> As to what Harry's animagus might be, independant of any thoughts or
> connection to Sirius, I consider that it might be a dog; large and
> powerful, but one of the friendly types. Harry is loyal, faithful,
> strong, and courageous; those are all very dog-like qualities. 
> 
> At least, that's how I'm seeing it at the moment; tommorrow, I might
> see it completely differently. Additionally, I think we should resist
> the urge to look exclusively at grand majestic animals like a lion,
> and concentrate more on the actual personality we see in Harry.
> Sirius's human persona had very many dog-like qualities. While I don't
> see animal characteristics that strong in Harry, I still say we should
> try not to be swayed by romantic desires to see Harry as some grand
> majestic animal. 
> 
> Just a few thoughts. Good to see Grey Wolf posting again, he is always
> well thought out and insightfull.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn

Nah, I don't see cats, big or small, as majestic. If I had wanted to go
majestic, I'd have mentioned wolves. ::extreme grin, with *many* teeth::
I think lions popped into my mind because the males ones always seem
to be hanguing around, never doing much (lionesses being the ones that
hunt), but the moment they *do* need to defend their pack, they are
amazingly strong and brave and so on. Mind you, the next thing that
pops to mind when you think of lions is sexual ability, and so far Harry
has demonstrated the dating abilities of a brick, so it doesn't really fit
him all that well.

Regarding the dog as a possibility, I'm rather doubtful too - but then,
I'm not a dog person, and I tend to associate the qualities you described
to wolves rather than to dogs (which I see as loud obnoxious creatures).
And Harry is *so* not wolf-like. 

Actually, another animal that came to mind was the weasel (famed for
being extremelly ferocious when cornered), but I restrained because, well,
it was a footnote and I didn't want into the whole "yes, Ron *is* surnamed
Weasley, which sounds like weasel, and that might foreshadow something
but really right now Harry is more like it". I'm still not particularly thrilled
by the comparisson, but for the sake of completeness, it is here. 

Thing is, when you're trying to describe a boy that has faced dragons,
spiders by the score and dementors by the hundred (as well as assorted
trolls, DEs, giant snakes, et cetera ad nauseam), it is hard to not go for the
majestic. I mean, a lamb he is not. Most plant-eaters have similarly need
to be discarded. But in fact, there is one animal that you mentioned (not in
connection to Harry) that does rather fit the bill: bears. They have the same
"fantastic fighter when cornered" ability I mentioned above, but mostly
they tend to be calm, with a tendency to solitude and, for creatures who
regularly weight several hundred kgs and measure up to 5 metres (I think),
they're rather self-effacing. And anyone daring to claim that Harry is not
the grumpy kind has not read books four and five :D.

Mind you, bears still fit the "majestic" brand, but do so only slightly, I feel.
They're majestic when stuffed into a permanent "roaring with paws up" pose
hunters dream the bear had when they shot him in the back, but when you
think of the bear going about its business, eating berries and small animals
and fish, he's far more cuddly than a half-ton animal deserves to be.

In a completely tangential topic, by the way, I wonder, bboy, did we ever
resolve the bloody timetable problem? I vaguely remember we were close to
breaking it into something that was physically possible last time, but I have
long since forgotten the details (hopefully, it was you the one I bounced
numbers with, and not some other poster).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who is glad to be back

P.D.: Am the only person who is reminded by this topic of Sinatra's song
about being a donkey, or a pig, or a fish...?