CHAPDISC: HBP5, An Excess of Phlegm

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No: HPFGUIDX 144204

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> The suppresion of Tonks's Animagus powers is especially
> interesting--will a similar problem afflict Ginny? Hermione?  
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> Harry?
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> Amiable Dorsai
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Are Ginny and Hermione and Harry animagi? For that matter, is Tonks? 
We know she's a metamorphmagus, but that isn't the same thing, is it?

What seems to be affected, if we go by the scene where she brings 
Harry to Hogwarts, is her patronus. The impression I get is that 
while not every wizard/witch is an animagus (in fact, isn't it rather 
rare?), practically any can produce a patronus if they are 
sufficiently skillful. I think the confusion arises from the fact 
that if a witch or wizard is an animagus, their animagus form and 
their patronus are the same animal (a stag, e.g., in the case of 
James Potter).

--La Gatta