Blonde wolves and ESE!Lupin

meltowne meltowne at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 19 21:54:26 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 130995

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tigerpatronus" 
<tigerpatronus at y...> wrote:
> Tiger: 
> 
> You know, I think you're right about it not being necessarily in 
the 
> books. I know I've deduced it, or it's at least highly suggested. 
> From the following JKR quotes, you can see that she correlates them 
> though, I agree with you, I have not found a case where someone 
both 
> is an animagus and can conjure a patronus. 
> 
> TK -- TigerPatronus
> 
> AOL Chat w JKR 19 Oct 2000: Does the animal one turns into as an 
> Animagi reflect your personality? JKR: 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! 
> 
> JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, March 4, 2004: kelly_holland: 
When 
> you turn into an Animagus, can you choose what animal you become? 
Or 
> does this get "assigned" to you? JK Rowling replies -> 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.

Meltowne:

She is suggesting here that the animagus form represents the person's 
personality.  Think about the animagi we know - McGonaggle, Rita 
Skeeter, and the Maruaders.  Each of their forms tells us something 
about them, doesn't it.

> Sunday 15 August 2004 J K Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival: 
> What form does Dumbledore's Patronus take? JKR: Good question. Can 
> anyone guess? You have had a clue. There was a little whisper 
there. 
> It is a phoenix, which is very representative of Dumbledore for 
> reasons that I am sure you can guess.

She is again suggesting something about personality, but I don't 
think it is reflected the same way.  Here we see DD's patronus as a 
phoenix, but I think that's because DD consider's the patronus to be 
protective.  He has a deep trust for the pheonix, and knows it can 
save him.  Harry's patronus takes one of his father's forms - he 
trusts his father to protect him.  Of course that doesn't tell us 
much about the other characters' patronuses.






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