Are Lily and Harry Animagi?

[bleckybecs]

No: HPFGUIDX 123862


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> wrote:
> 
> OT Chatter had pictures of cats. Looked at pictures and saw green 
> eyes. Thought of Harry and Lilly. Pondering if they could both be 
> animagi.  Which leads to this thought. 
> 
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Just to straight answer the question the subject title asks, no 
Harry is not, and will not be an Animagus, at least for the duration 
of Hoggwarts. The reason I think that is because JKR says so (' No, 
Harry's not in training to be an animagus...  No, Harry is not, 
Harry is going to be concentrated elsewhere, he's not going to have 
time to do that. ')

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-
pressclubtransc.html

Which I think deals with Harry, but Lily is different. I feel that 
however great a witch she may be, she won't have become an Animagus 
because (and now I'm into my own speculation) it being such a hard 
thing to do, you would want a reason. Granted, as yet we see no 
reason for McGonagall learning, but all the others we know of 
definately have reasons. (Interestingly, all the others we know of 
are unregistered and therefore illegal. Just a thought.)

The mauraders reason is simple - to keep Lupin company.
Rita Skeeter is also fairly simple - to get her stories without 
being seen, to get the gossip no-one in their right mind would tell 
her to her face.

I'm on a tangent now... back to Lily. I see no real reason for her 
to have become an Animagus. Perhaps she has one that we don't know 
yet. Also, it's clear that it takes time to learn, even for a very 
powerful witch or wizard, and she has been busy having a child and 
also with the OotP. So, overall, I don't think it's very likely, 
although it's certainly not impossible.

Becky (whos suddenly realised that this must mean Rita Skeeter is 
powerful and is wondering if we'll see anything more interesting 
from her...)