[HPforGrownups] Do animagi get to choose their form?

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 168159

> clcb:

> I wonder if a wizard who learns to become an animagus gets to choose what 
> animal they
> transform into or do they just get what they get, like with a Patronus?
>
> If they get to choose, I wonder why Peter Pettigrew would have chosen a 
> rat that Sirius'
> dog could've eaten?
>
> I can't find anything in the canon about this, so I know everything will 
> be speculation, but
> I'd love to read your thoughts.

Magpie:
I'm pretty sure JKR explained this. She said that no, they can't chooose 
their form. I believe she said that was one of the risks of studying it, 
that you could put in a lot of work and then find out you were a warthog.

-m