Thread by @patronustonks, • A THREAD: how a witch or wizard becomes an Animagus? • [...]

• A THREAD: how a witch or
wizard becomes an Animagus? •

First of all, let’s see the definition for an Animagus: “An Animagus is a witch or wizard who can transform at will into an animal”.

And with that, we can clarify the difference between an Animagus and a Metamorphmagus: becoming an Animagus is a learned skill, but the Metamorhmagus is a skill passed by heritage.

We can also clarify the difference between an Animagus and a werewolf by quoting the brightest witch of her age, our beautiful Hermione Granger: “An Animagus is a wizard who elects to turn into an animal. A werewolf has no choice.”

Now, before going to the steps, here are some things to keep in mind:
- you need to ace your Transfiguration and Potions classes, because the process to become an Animagus requires advanced skills in both these areas.

- You’ll need those skills, because if something goes wrong during the process, you can end up half-human half-creature FOR EVER, and there is no cure for such thing. So BE VERY CAREFUL WITH ALL THE STEPS.

- The advise is to log your personal details and Animagus appearance on the Animagus Registry (we all know our beloved Marauders didn’t do such thing), because you could end up in Azkaban by not doing that.

Now, let’s see those steps:

1. You need to carry a single Mandrake leaf in your mouth for an entire month (from full moon to full moon). If you swallow it while eating, or take it out to brush your teeth, you need to do the whole thing again. IT CANNOT LEAVE YOUR MOUTH FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH.

2. After doing that, you need to find a small crystal phial and put two things inside it: your saliva-filled mandrake leaf and one of your own hairs. Then, you need to keep the phial on a place where it only receives the pure rays of the moon.

3. Now, you need to find a place that can provides you dew and PROTECT that space because it cannot be touched by human feet nor sunlight for seven days.

So, after those 7 days, take a silver teaspoon of dew and add it to the phial, but NOT ONLY THAT, because you also need to add the chrysalis of a Death’s-head Hawk Month to it too.

Now, put that mixture in a quiet, dark place and leave it there alone until the NEXT ELECTRICAL STORM, so keep in mind that it could take weeks, months even years for that to happen.

And when I mean “leave it there alone”, you NEED to leave it there alone, so don’t even go into that room, don’t look at the phial, don’t even THINK about looking to that phial. BE STRONG, and control yourself.

4. While you’re waiting for the storm to happen, you must place your wand tip over your heart 2 times a day, every sunrise and sundown, and speak the incantation “Amato Animo Animato Animagus”.

If you do this properly, it will come to a day when you’ll point the wand tip to your chest and a SECOND HEARTBEAT may be sensed. Remember! You must do this until the storm, so, if you sense another heartbeat, DON’T FREAK OUT, that’s supposed to happen. So just keep going.

5. NOW! When you see that a storm is about to happen, go to the place where you’ve hidden your crystal phial. If you’ve done everything right, you’ll see that the phial now contains a mouthful of blood-red potion.

So, take that potion and go to somewhere where you aren’t going to alarm anyone or place yourself in physical danger during your transformation, because folks, IT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN. So just go to an open spaced place, like a field.

6. ok guys, now it’s the time: place your wand-tip against your heart and speak the incantation I mentioned before (“Amato Animo Animato Animagus”) and drink the potion. Then, you’ll feel pain, lots of pain, and an intense double heartbeat.

7. The transformation is happening. The shape of the creature into which you will transform will appear in your mind.

So let’s say you are transforming and a dog just pops into your mind. That’s the animal your body will transform into (most of the times, it’s the same animal as your full-body Patronus).

The transformation is VERY PAINFUL in the first time, and is very important that YOU DON’T START PANICKING, because well, there is no going back now, and otherwise you could do something stupid after becoming the animal -

but after you’ve done it multiple times, in the future, the pain will eventually stop.

Now, when you are transforming, it’s advised that you do it while wearing clothes, because:
1) you don’t want to be naked when you go back to your human body.

2) if you’re wearing any clothes and items such as glasses (this reminded me of James, and now I’m crying) or jewelry, those things will kinda meld to the skin and become fur, scales or spikes, depending on which animal you will transform into.

8. When the transformation is complete you NEED to pick up your wand and HIDE IT somewhere safe, so you can find it post-transformation. If you want to return to your human form, all you need to do is visualize your human self as clearly as you can.

Oh, and just as I said that the pain will go away eventually, it’s also important to point out that, with practice, it will come to a time where you’ll be able to transform in and out of your animal form at will, simply by just visualizing either the creature or yourself.

Once you become an advanced Animagus, you should be able to transform without your wand.

THE MARAUDERS:

- we all know that James, Sirius and Peter became Animagus so they could be with Remus and help him get through the werewolf transformation every full moon. But, how does that work? Couldn’t Remus attack them?

- No. You see, a werewolf doesn’t attack animals, it only attacks humans. A werewolf will only attack another animal if this animal attacks the werewolf in the first place. And as we see here in this part of Prisoner of Azkaban, animals can communicate between themselves:

Now, I don’t know for sure if the marauders could communicate between themselves once they were all transformed, but by reading Sirius’ line above, I suppose maybe they could.

And last but not least...
HERE ARE SOME WELL KNOWN ANIMAGUS FROM THE HP SERIES (some of them we love, some of them we hate):

MINERVA MCGONAGALL:

she’s the first Animagus to whom we are introduced, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Teacher of Transfiguration in Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she’s a brilliant, powerful woman who basically OWNS the entire wizarding school.

THREE OF THE MARAUDERS:

James Potter - stag
Sirius Black - a dog
Peter Pettigrew - a rat

Oh please, do I even have to start talking about them?
They went through this whole painful process willing to HELP THEIR FRIEND.
I—
I don’t have words.

RITA SKEETER:

- beetle

well, we all hate her. A journalist witch who wrote for The Daily Prophet and The Quibbler (forced by our queen, Hermione) and also published “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore” and other books.
She was an ilegal Animagi.

and that’s it, hope you liked it!

source of information for the making of this thread:
-Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azksban
-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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