Do we really get our closer?

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 177194

We don't know the details of being an animagus, as none of the 
Trio within the story becomes one. Yet it seems to me that it 
is more-or-less an innate ability--refined by study, to be sure, 
but you either have the potential to become an animagus or you 
do not. Hence, I am not surprised that one does not need a wand 
to do it. Perhaps a wand is needed for the initial spell that 
activates the potential, but I think that after activation it 
becomes a matter of will, like apparation (which does not seem 
to need a wand, either.)

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other 
forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle 
remains pure in heart."--Iris Murdoch