Hi!
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From: lezlielioness{at}bytewright.com
Sent: 05/10/03 01:48 PM
To: bardroom2{at}tantech.com
Subject: Re: [BR-2] Madam Hooch

> 
> >Quoting Michael Nellis :
>
>> What is Madam Hooch's animagus?
>
>Is she one? I thought there were only just a few registered Animagi in
this 
>century, and that Prof. McGonagall is the only one at Hogwarts.

So -- she's an unregistered animagus -- isn't that illegal in the Potter
universe?
>
>> Since I first saw her on the broom training pitch, I figured it was
>> an owl.  Now, however, I'm writing a fanfic set in the Potter
>> universe and I've made her a Golden Eagle.  Simply 'cause it's just
>> such a magnificent monster.  (Right, Laurie?) 
 but if she were going to be an 
>Animagus, a Golden Eagle is as good as any.  Certainly a raptor fits her 
>character.

Indeed, but a Golden eagle is such a BEAUTIFUL raptor, and huge as well -- 
too
lovely for Madam Hooch, IMHO. (I've always imagined the griffin to be half
golden eagle/half lion.) How about one of the lessor raptors of the eagle
clan?
 (Do goldens live in England?) Lezlie

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No, but then neither do most of the owl species mentioned in the Potter books . . .

Russ, the slightly grinning waterweasel
(Because I was wondering the same thing.  Also wondering if the sort of
animal you could "were" to was genetically linked to your
ancestory.)

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