werewolves vs. animagi

[czeri]

I had a lovely weekend. I spent Saturday with RL friends, we were chatting and watching films; and then I spent Sunday with LJ friends, we were chatting and watching films :-)

Now, one of the films I rewatched this weekend was "Prisoner of Azkaban" and something in it made me wonder - in the scene when werewolf!Remus and dog!Sirius are fighting, they're biting each other. Which I suppose is fair enough, how else can they fight, right? And yet, Sirius didn't get turned into a werewolf (I'm assuming we would have heard about it if he had). Does this mean that a wizard in animagus form is immune to lycanthropy? Because if that were true, Draco so would have turned himself into an animagus (it's Transfiguration, after all, and he's very good at Transfiguration). Also, wouldn't it be cool if his animagus form was actually a white, silver-eyed wolf? He is half Black, so it'd make sense that his animagus form would be canine :ponders:

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[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry but Draco's animagus form would be a ferret. ;)

And that bit from PoA totally bugged me, too. I think it's just an oversight, though, I don't think it implies anything else.

I think we should all go see A Scanner Darkly after having ice cream on Saturday. Or is there another plan already in the works?

[czeri.livejournal.com]

A ferret? Just because that's what Crouch turned him into? Nah. Although it is an interesting concept, that you could influence what your animagus form would be by transfiguring yourself into an animal of choice first, hmm. Coming back to Draco, I always imagined him to be a white greyhound, because Sirius was a dog, but Draco'd be a more noble and pointed breed ;-) Now I'm very taken with the wolf idea, though. It'd be just so ironic ;-)

The more I think about the animagus immunity, the more it makes sense - wasn't that why the marauders turned themselves into animagi in the first place? So that they could keep Remus's company? He didn't have the Wolfsbane back then, so he was just a bloodthirsty werewolf, why would they think they'd be safe around him in animal form if it didn't make them immune? James as animagus wasn't even a predator, after all.

:SQUEE: You want to see "A Scanner Darkly"?! Because, yeah, that was what I was planning to do after ice-cream, I didn't think anyone else'd be interested, though. :-)