Year 5 is when students can start their magical education into becoming animagi. You must roleplay all your steps. This is a difficult and rare magical feat. we have taken steps to parallel that in the RP. Your success is our success and your failures are our failures. Make us understand your struggle!
Animagus rules:
1. All Animagus must have potions and transfiguration as their interchangeable skill.
2. The shape in which an Animagus will transform will be the same of his/her Patronus. Exceptions can be made but for this you have to contact the admins about it.
*Those character whose Patronus shape has changed with the years will keep the Animagus shape they chose at the very beginning. NO CHANGES
3. All Animagus must take at least one class with professor McGonagall to be able to become one.
4. Roleplayers interested into becoming animagus must contact the admins about it.
5. Before being able to shapeshift all the roleplayers have to describe an entire year in which they were working on the process to become an Animagus.
6. Registered/ unregistered Animagus have to report themselves with the admins.
7. Players will have to roll to determine their success in the different tasks. The amount of time it will take the then to become an Animagi depends on their ability to prepared the potion and transform.
🎲Animagus rolls:
1-9 Failed Animagus potion /failed transformation
10 -12 Successful Animagus potion/ successful Animagus transformation.
⚠️Rolls will only be available on a specific day of the year. Each character has only one chance to roll every year.
How to RP: A guide to becoming an Animagus
- A single leaf from a Mandrake plant is kept in the mouth for one month, from full moon to full moon. If at any point the leaf is swallowed or removed from the mouth, the process must be started again.
- The leaf is removed at full moon and placed in a crystal phial that receives the pure moon rays (if it is cloudy, again the process must be restarted), together with one of the wizard’s hairs, a silver teaspoonful of dew collected from a place untouched by sunlight and human feet for seven days, and the chrysalis of a death’s-head hawk moth.
- This mixture is placed in a quiet, dark place and must not be disturbed, touched by sunlight or even looked at until the next electrical storm. Meanwhile the following spell must be performed without fail every dawn and every dusk: the tip of the wand is placed over the heart and the incantation “Amato Animo Animato Animagus” is spoken. There will come a time when, when the wand touches the chest, a second heartbeat is sensed.
- As soon as lightning appears, the final stages are enacted. The crystal phial should now contain a blood red potion, which is drunk after performing the spell one last time. The witch or wizard experiences a “fiery pain and an intense double heartbeat”, and has a vision of the animal they are to transform into.
- The first transformation is painful and frightening; it is important not to resist the change or panic, as the animal mind may take over. The Animagus can change back into their human form by visualizing themselves in their minds. Learning to transform at will takes a lot of practice, but gets easier and faster with time.
This process is long, complex and tedious; skill in both Transfiguration and Potions is required, not to mention no small amount of patience (PmP). It can take several years to complete. When it goes wrong, there are horrible consequences usually involving half-human, half-animal mutations. These mistakes are irreversible, and the witch or wizard in question remains in this state for the rest of their life (PmP).
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 