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But the film just gives us the bare minimum.

We learn Peter betrayed James, Sirius was framed and sent to Azkaban, and Peter hid as a rat for 12 years because they were Animagi.

Which is just the functional plot data.

Right.

They leave out why they became Animagi in the first place.

To help Lupin through his werewolf transformations, a massive detail about their friendship.

Totally cut.

Um, she is a master of Transfiguration, one of the most interesting and complex forms of magic there is.

She is an Animagus, one of the coolest and, again, most complex magical powers possible.

She was...

I believe the, I believe the canon explanation is an injury away from being a professional Quidditch player.

... reduced to a verbal rivalry more than anything.

I, I think, yeah, I, I think it's more just like a, a culmination of wanting more bits, more transfiguration classes, more...

I, I wanna see her as an Animagus more.

Surely we could've made more use out of having a literal Animagus who was in Hogwarts, in the Order of the Phoenix, in all of the battles.

P.S.

Her name is Bea, and I would absolutely die if you discussed the possibility of Neville's toad being an unregistered Animagus, namely Umbridge.

Umbridge.

Well, we've talked about it before.

... that's a, just thank you so much for, for writing that in your, your review.

Um, okay.

So n- um, Trevor the toad being, uh, potentially Umbridge in Animagus form, like it's not like we don't have the twist turn, you know, of Rita Skeeter having been an Animagus the whole time-

Right

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But the mechanical rule of the spell is that the physical form it takes, the animal shape, is intimately and inextricably tied to the caster's deepest emotional state, their core identity, or their most profound love.

Harry's Patronus is a stag because his father, James Potter, was an Animagus who turned into a stag.

It's a manifestation of his desire for his father's protection.

But the source material rightly points out the climax of this rule, Severus Snape.

If Lithgow is the eccentric visionary, McTeer brings a very specific kind of structural authority.

Mc- McGonagall is an Animagus.

She transforms into a cat.

But looking at McTeer's past roles, she brings the energy of a panther.

Busy day to-morrow with the Quidditch match.' Sirius leaned over and kissed Harry's forehead.

No more Animagus meditating unless we're in the room with you.

Good night, Harry.

Remus ruffled his hair.

Harry nodded.

He watched as they both left, turning the lights out as they went.

He'd found his Animagus form.

He fell asleep with a wide smile on his face and dreamed of flying, free and happy.

How, how are you so inept? [laughs]

... right, to a real one? Um, and you know, so then I guess, like, when we talk about the Animagus, a lot of times the way that we...

You know, I think, I think even the way it's delivered is basically that, like, with the help of James and Sirius, Peter was eventually able to, like, cross that threshold-

Right

... and be able to get there.

And I mean, the Animagus is sort of like Column A, Column B a little bit if you look at it because you also have, like, Rita Skeeter, um, who has, like-

Yeah, Animagus

... a- a, yeah, who has Animagus.

But, yeah, so, like, just going back to their friendship, like, they...

There's one kind of, I would say, pretty dark thing that happens, obviously, as we were talking about the Animagus and werewolf thing is between, I would assume it has to be in like their fifth or sixth year when Sirius tells Snape.

Oh, yeah.

And like we kind

But, like, before I forget, like, when Remus goes to school...

Like, when he's an adult, Snape makes him the Wolfsbane Potion for lycanthropy.

But that's a new invention, right? So, like, if that had existed, obviously they never would have needed to become Animagus.

But that means the Wolfsbane Potion was invented at some point between 19... 80 like like in the last decade after they left school so like so like call it between like 67 and like 93 at some point this was invented yeah right and like we don't know who the we might