Requirement for wands Was Re: Do we really get our closer?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 177135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at ...> 
wrote:
 
> I have no doubt whatsoever, that McGonagall has her wand in the 
> pocket of her robes when she transforms in PS.  She would be a 
> foolish witch to travel without it.


I agree with you that McGonagall had her wand in PS, but to me it 
doesn't mean that she *needed* it for her transformation. There is 
nothing in the books to indicate that a wand is required to 
transform. On the contrary, Sirius transforms without a wand, and so 
does Wormtail. 

I know someone upthread wrote that Wormtail needed his wand to 
transform, and even that he had it on him in the Shrieking Shack, but 
I really can't see any evidence of that, however I try :-). If he had 
his wand, why would he need to take Lupin's? And he used Lupin's wand 
to curse Ron and Crookshanks, not to transform. He transformed 
*after* Harry disarmed him.

We were told in DH that a wand is required to Apparate, but why 
should it mean that it is also required for Animagus transformation? 
For me, one not necessarily leads to another :-).


zanooda