Harry Potter's fictional godfather-wizard, Sirius reappears to
support Harry on his final journey, in this epic series that has
spanned seven books and reached tens of millions of global readers.
Sirius, named for the Dog Star, was the last heir
of the House of Black, a once notable pure-blood wizarding family
whose members were all named for stars, constellations and
galaxies. He became a prominent character in the third book, Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where he first appeared as a
black dog.
In Harry Potter books, each of the wizards and
witches are capable of turning into a particular animal and back at
will. The transformation into an 'Animagus' is extremely
difficult and can go horribly wrong.
Animagi can assume only one animal form, and that
form is not chosen by them. Rather, it reflects a witch or
wizard's inner nature. The series features several Animagi,
most famously Professor McGonagall who spends much of the first
chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a
cat.
Harry's best friend-witch, Hermione Granger
also turns herself into a cat.
In this book, Harry passes from childhood into
manhood, wondering in the end what kind of reckless godfather he
might become to young Teddy Lupin.
But, I do not wish to give away the plot. I know
many people wanted to tell me the ending, but I threatened them. I
told them I would sit on them if they gave me so much as the
slightest hint.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows starts off, as
usual, with family. Family is very important to Harry Potter and
the Weasley's. It is a slow-read through many chapters, but
then becomes a real page-turner to the end. And what an ending!
Wow!
Readers who love animals and nature will appreciate
J.K. Rowling's very descriptive style of writing. 'She
gives an illustrator a lot to work with,' said the book's
illustrator, Mary GrandPr?©. 'Each story is packed full of
rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting,
and all the different creatures and people.'
By midway through the novel, I could not put this
book down. How dare my eyes get sleepy because it was very late at
night? How dare my lunch break be over so quickly? How dare life
and responsibilities creep into my existence?
I hope you enjoy reading this final book as much as
I did. Nice job Rowling - this was another exciting adventure.
In a few months, I will come back and give you a full review. But,
for now, please read this wonderful and final chapter of the Harry
Potter series so you may be ready for the review.
Gina Ann Harvey
Hogwarts Kennel
First, I would like to say, not all witches and
wizards can transform into animals. In fact those who can are born
that way and must be registered if they can do it, and that ability
is very, very rare.
It was just the Marauders that were able to
'learn' to transform and that was not only even more rare
and unlikely -- but highly illegal and only possible because they
were the elite of gifted wizards. Peter was an exception but his
more gifted friends helped him and even that took significantly
longer to learn....Lupin of course was bitten and didn't learn
to transform he had no choice. Also, Hermione didn't turn into
a cat.....well not in this sense anyway...she just halfway turned
furry like a cat because she accidentally put cat hair into a
potion when she thought she was using human hair. The reason it
didn't actually turn her into a cat is because that potion
(poly juice potion) doesn't work on animals, so she
couldn't actually be turned into a cat.
You are correct that you cannot choose your form as
an animal if you are one of the few that do transform. It does
reflect something of your inner self, but you should probably note
two key points....
1. Your animal form -- if you have such and it is again rare that
you do - has to be the same as your Patronous form, which only
advanced wizards can produce.
2. Your Patronous form can change in the case of great emotional
change
And though many characters have constellation
names, the author was choosing most of those names in relation to
their Greek personalities and not necessarily because of the
stars.
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