Do animagi get to choose their form?

[hutchingslesley]

No: HPFGUIDX 168273

> clcb wrote:

> 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?

lhutch1 Replies:

Hi,
If they dont get to choose what they become they very conveniently
seem to turn into what they need to be, eg; Pettigrew into a rat
so he can freeze the whomping willow, Sirius and James into large
animals to keep a werewolf under control, (POA) and Rita Skeeter
into a beetle/bug which must have been very convenient. In PS/SS
we saw how McGonagall naturally blended in on Privot Drive as a
cat although it would have worked better if she wasn't reading a
map! If they don't get to decide what they change into I think
there must be an element of the subconscious about it and the
same with the Patronus because in HBP it is mentioned that tonks's
Patronus changed when she was unhappy.