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Dorcas Meadowes is still alive (_dorcas_) wrote,
@ 2012-06-23 17:10:00

005 - Animagi
I've been giving it a great deal of thought, and decided that I am going to resume the studies I had nearly completed twenty years ago and become an animagi. Unfortunately, as magic was not nearly so important to my life when I was away from England, I am feeling a bit rusty and out of practice. It's hard to remember the time when I was a skilled duelist and a transfiguration specialist. It seems so far away (and I suppose it was).

James, Sirius, Peter
You are all registered now. How are the final stages of becoming an animagi? It is going to take a lot of work for me to ready myself to that point again, and my memories of doing so are a bit foggy. Also, what does it take to become registered? I can't remember.
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I'm also on the market for an apartment. Any suggestions? I absolutely hate searching for a place.

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	elliebee 2012-06-24 08:24 am UTC (link)
	Excuse me, but, is the study to become an Animagus very hard? I think that maybe I'd like to do it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	_dorcas_ 2012-06-24 08:28 am UTC (link)
	It is very physically and mentally taxing. A mistake during a transformation can result in irreversible damage. That is why so few people are actually animagi. However, if you're interested, I'd be happy to help you work in that direction. How are your transfiguration skills? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebee 2012-06-24 08:30 am UTC (link)
	I'll be honest... I'm not the best or the brightest. But I am the hardest worker, the most dedicated, and I do want to learn... I've passed all my exams so far, and I just scraped an E in Transfiguration. Do you think that I could do it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	_dorcas_ 2012-06-24 08:31 am UTC (link)
	What year are you? I recommend studying human transfiguration first. If you can master that, the animagus studies should come naturally. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	elliebee 2012-06-24 08:57 am UTC (link)
	I'm going into my sixth year. Were you serious about working with me? I'm happy to do, like, extra work outside of school hours if it will help. Do you get to choose, what you'll become? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

_dorcas_
2012-06-24 09:03 am UTC (link)

I am serious. I would be happy to, although I am sure that Professor McGonagall would help you as she did with me, during the school year. In the mean time, we could get started now.

I studied human transfiguration all through my sixth year and seventh, and was just about ready to become a registered animagi when I graduated. Unfortunately, the war was going on then, and there were more important things that I got involved in and had to put that dream on hold.

In a way. Your animagus form is very deeply rooted in your personality. I've always felt it was a mixture of choice and what suits you the best.

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elliebee
2012-06-24 09:07 am UTC (link)

I'd very much like to become a dolphin, or a whale. It isn't about size so much as it is about being one with the ocean... I'm very much in love with the ocean, and that's largely why I'd like to become an Animagus. I want to be able to just walk into the ocean, change, and swim away for an afternoon, see things that no human will ever see.

Oh gosh, is that really selfish and horrible to say? Because I don't mean to be... I think as someone who can appreciate the ocean in that way I'd be better equipped to work for conservation and such.

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