apparation question

[scratchingpost1]

Do we ever see an animagus apparating while in animal form? If not, do you think it would be possible?

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[pica_scribit]

I don't believe we ever do, and my personal feeling would be that it is either not possible or highly unlikely. Apparition is shown to be something that requires a certain amount of focus and mental discipline, and there is canon evidence that the minds of transformed Animagi are simpler and more instinctive than the human mind. That being said, there's the bit in Philosopher's Stone where Harry remembers Apparating onto the school roof by accident when he's trying to escape. If it's possible to Apparate instinctively, maybe it is possible for a transformed Animagus to do it.

[scratchingpost1]

Thanks. I didn't think it was done in the books. My thought was that it might depend on the animal form and the person involved. I thought it might also work as a fight or flight response while in animal form.

[coendou]

I'm actually not sure that a wizard can do any magic while in animagus form.

I don't have anything to back that up, but I feel like I've heard it before. Might be fanon, though. Babbity rabbit may have done some kind of magic while in animal form, but it's unclear how "true" those stories are supposed to be.

[scratchingpost1]

Thanks. I was thinking of having a character accidentally apparate while in animal form in a fight or flight situation. The character would be trying to change back into human form and apparates instead. I'm not entirely sure I would use it. I wanted to see if there was evidence for it first.

[snorkackcatcher]

They'd presumably need to be holding a wand in some way to do it regardless, which might be difficult given some animagus forms! And if they turn into an animal while holding the wand, it seems to 'absorb' it as well as the clothing etc, to judge from transformations we see, so they'd have to drop it first!

Babbity Rabbity was mentioned: in that tale rabbit!Babbity comes out of the tree stump with a wand between her teeth. Dumbledore's notes at the end say "[Beedle] asks us to believe that Babbity can talk while she is a rabbit ... this is the only liberty that he takes with magical laws in the story". That would imply that it might still be possible to do wordless spells (she doesn't do any after hiding in the tree).

[scratchingpost1]

Thank you. That gives me a lot to think about.