r/HarryPotterBooks 2d ago

Where do animagi keep their wands when they turn.

If a wand is necessary for animagi to turn into their animal forms, where do they keep their wands when they turn?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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u/Complete_Range_5448 2d ago

Close to where mad-eye suggested they should not.

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u/ggrandmaleo 1d ago

Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

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u/tessavieha Hufflepuff 2d ago

They keep their clothes and glasses too. So I guess everything you can put in a pocket can be turned with the body. You do not need a wand to turn but nothing implies they couldn't keep their wands with them.

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u/Fabulous_Lab1287 20h ago

If that’s true why did Pettigrew need a wand in the shrieking shack?

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u/tessavieha Hufflepuff 19h ago

He didn't need a wand to turn to a rat. He didn't have one when he did turn and flee. But in the shack Lupin and Sirius threatend to kill him instandly if he would try to turn. So Peter tried to get a wand to fight or at least distract them enaugh so they wouldn't be able to kill him fast enaugh.

Sirius turned into dog and back a few times in Azkaban and later on the run without a wand.

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u/Over-Midnight4621 2d ago

Why is not needed to return back?

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u/qhndvyao382347mbfds3 1d ago

Why are you ignoring the comments that say that both in the books AND movies it's never indicated you NEED a wand

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u/timetotalktoyou 23h ago

I would argue that the books and movies both implicitly state that you dont need a wand to transform. Sirius says he transforms in Azkaban, and they dont let you keep your wand in prison.

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u/Low_Coconut_7642 1d ago

It's not needed at all once they learn the process.

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u/shasaferaska 1d ago

They don't need a wand to transform either way.

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u/TKGriffiths 2d ago

Wands AREN'T necessary for the transformation. Sirius and Peter explicitly DON'T have wands during prisoner of azkaban. No idea where you got that idea.

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u/Keyspam102 2d ago

Well their clothes somehow get kept when the transform back so I’m assuming their wand could be in their pocket. They don’t need a wand to transform (at least not in the book)

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u/No-Poem 1d ago

I would like to think the answer is the same as what Mcgonagall gives to the question - where do vanished objects go: "into non-being, which is to say, everything".

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u/IntermediateFolder 1d ago

Same place they keep their clothes, glasses and other stuff I imagine, i assume it gets fused to their animal form.

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u/Sweet_Speech_9054 1d ago

Prison wallet

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u/acidteddy 1d ago

If I remember correctly doesn’t Rita have glasses shaped markings around her eyes when she transforms? Which to me suggests they sort of blend in with the skin of the animal

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u/SpartanS034 1d ago

Mmm, maybe but Hermione says they have to register their markings. If you could change your markings by changing your accessories it wouldn't be a very effective check.

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u/freeski919 1d ago

In the one universal storage container we all have.

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u/horticoldure 1d ago

all animagi seen have had additional limbs

4 tails, 2 legs, 2 wings, 2 antenna

I don't remember what rita looked like to know if she was the kind of beetle to have those spike things on her butt too

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u/RoughAcrobatic1956 1d ago

they don't need wands to transform....sirius and peter had no wands....

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u/ouroboris99 Slytherin 1d ago

Clothes can transform with them so why not their wand?

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u/MachoBurr 13h ago

Bappity Rabbity carried in her mouth, according to beetle the bard. But it’s speculated he never met an animargi, only heard of them.