I am an excellent gift-giver.
YES, it's a platypus, and YES, it is pink. And NO, I cannot procure you one, Brown and Patil of Gryffindor. Nor can I tell you where I procured the creature. It's a secret, if you want to know the truth. Some of us have connections and would take care not to lose them.
And yes, I already know that the school rules state that students may keep either an owl, cat, or toad for creature companionship, but since there is already a sodzilla dwelling in the lake, and a boo hag living with Boot, and a Chuckadonna residing in the dungeons, it doesn't seem likely that a platypus will create much fuss or fanfare--even if it does happen to be pink.
Anyway, the platypus belongs to Pansy now. It was her first birthday present. Her second birthday falls in August when mine does. Hardly anyone in the world is so lucky to actually have two birthdays, so I firmly suggest that you all give her the congratulations and warm wishes that she deserves.
The platypus, I've learned, is quite a remarkable creature. It looks like one of those dreadful hybrid creations that Hagrid might breed, but in the case of the platypus it's hybrid quality occurs naturally, so that it resembles both a duck and a beaver. As such, it's considered one of nature's enigmas. Specifically, muggles consider it an enigma. I cannot imagine it being particularly enigmatic to those of us who grew up amongst magical creatures, however. Muggles are stumped by the most simple of things, really. But still, this platypus is a fetching sort of creature, even if he is pink.
All this talk of animals and creatures has me thinking about the curious phenomenon know as animagi. Believe me, I am appalled at the realisation that there are wizards and witches out there who actually enjoy transfiguring themselves into something non-human, but I can see where it would on very very very very very very very very very very rare occasions be a handy skill to possess. Were I an animagus (though I would never be such a thing) I think a platypus would be a useful form to take, as it navigates wells in both water and on land, and has a poisonous spur on its back leg that can make a human victim extremely ill.
I would not be a pink coloured platypus animagus, however. I would be a white platypus animagus. Yes, a nice slivery-white colour.
Though now that I think on it, it's rather useless to look like a duck and not be able to fly. If I am going to be duck-billed, I want to be duck-winged as well. But being a duck animagus doesn't sound noble or grand at all. Perhaps I should opt for the form of a snowy-white hawk, or a white, winged horse.
Can a person have more than one animagus form?
Pansy? Millicent? Blaise? Theodore? What sort of animagus forms would you like to take?
And yes, I already know that the school rules state that students may keep either an owl, cat, or toad for creature companionship, but since there is already a sodzilla dwelling in the lake, and a boo hag living with Boot, and a Chuckadonna residing in the dungeons, it doesn't seem likely that a platypus will create much fuss or fanfare--even if it does happen to be pink.
Anyway, the platypus belongs to Pansy now. It was her first birthday present. Her second birthday falls in August when mine does. Hardly anyone in the world is so lucky to actually have two birthdays, so I firmly suggest that you all give her the congratulations and warm wishes that she deserves.
The platypus, I've learned, is quite a remarkable creature. It looks like one of those dreadful hybrid creations that Hagrid might breed, but in the case of the platypus it's hybrid quality occurs naturally, so that it resembles both a duck and a beaver. As such, it's considered one of nature's enigmas. Specifically, muggles consider it an enigma. I cannot imagine it being particularly enigmatic to those of us who grew up amongst magical creatures, however. Muggles are stumped by the most simple of things, really. But still, this platypus is a fetching sort of creature, even if he is pink.
All this talk of animals and creatures has me thinking about the curious phenomenon know as animagi. Believe me, I am appalled at the realisation that there are wizards and witches out there who actually enjoy transfiguring themselves into something non-human, but I can see where it would on very very very very very very very very very very rare occasions be a handy skill to possess. Were I an animagus (though I would never be such a thing) I think a platypus would be a useful form to take, as it navigates wells in both water and on land, and has a poisonous spur on its back leg that can make a human victim extremely ill.
I would not be a pink coloured platypus animagus, however. I would be a white platypus animagus. Yes, a nice slivery-white colour.
Though now that I think on it, it's rather useless to look like a duck and not be able to fly. If I am going to be duck-billed, I want to be duck-winged as well. But being a duck animagus doesn't sound noble or grand at all. Perhaps I should opt for the form of a snowy-white hawk, or a white, winged horse.
Can a person have more than one animagus form?
Pansy? Millicent? Blaise? Theodore? What sort of animagus forms would you like to take?