Is your Patronus the same as your Animagus?

[ginny343]

No: HPFGUIDX 127231


Greenfirespike <feenyjam at m...> wrote:
> I believe that a character's Patronus will take the same 
> shape as her/his Animagus.  While we no conclusive evidence
> via canon, because we have only been privy to either a 
> character's Patronus or Animagus, it appears they derive 
> from the same internal thing. 
> 
> Look for example at Jo's comments made on March 4, 2004; 
> when asked if a person can choose what animal you become 
> when you turn into an Animagus, Rowling replied "No, you 
> can't choose.  You become the animal that suits you best.  
> Imagine the humiliation when you finally transform after 
> years of study and find that you most closely resemble a 
> warthog."


Ginny343:

    I have been away for a few days, but I think I have hit all the 
related posts and I haven't seen this brought up.
    During the same chat quoted above, another question was asked 
about animagi. Someone asked JKR which animal she would be if she 
became an animagus.  She replied, "I gave Hermione my idea animagus, 
because it's my favourite animal. You'll find the answer in the Room 
of Requirement, Order of the Phoenix!" (I think that should 
be "ideal" not "idea", but I'm quoting directly.)
    However, we see Hermione's patronus (an otter) in the Room of 
Requirement, not her transformed as an animagus. 
    This leads me to believe JKR means for them to be one in the 
same.  

    On the other hand, I liked the point made that Harry and his 
father seem to have very different personalities, which makes it 
hard to believe they would have the same patronus/animagus.  That 
leads me to wonder what Harry might have been like if he had grown 
up as a "normal" wizard, in the wizarding community, knowing all his 
life that he was a wizard.  Or what he might have been like, if 
being famous Harry Potter, he had grown up in the wizarding 
community with everyone looking to him as something special.  Would 
either of those situations have caused him to act more like James 
when he is at Hogwarts?  Would James have still be the show-off he 
was if he had grown up in the situation Harry did?  I somehow think 
that if Harry and James had both lived and grown old together, 
father and son would find their personalities really is very 
similar.  Or maybe Lily's kindness is something Harry inherited that 
makes him different from James . . . and somehow that doesn't affect 
his patronus/animagus.    
  Just an observation and some thoughts.

:)Ginny343