How To Become An Animagus | Harry Potter Explained 

SuperCarlinBrothers polar bear

sloth

Maby a ant

hmm a doggo :3 more specifically a husky or something similar :P

A duck, it would be pretty rad👍

Hahaha

He would probably have PTSD after that, because he would think moody hit him again 😂😂😂

@Daniel von Strangle but the ptsd from last time would prob hit him lol

Roflmao head cannon accepted

Jimmy Ji that would be amazing

I was picturing that too.

Ten nelle 😂

Are you saying Ben didn't really become a trout?:(

Thank you for making my day.

i figured that out on the third flip and was giggling so much I had to rewind whats also funny is imagining trout!ben flipping around JUST to mess J up for the rest of the video

This was so funny to me

Ya ikr

Funny

I was really hoping for Ben to come flying up to Jay’s face and for Jay to slap him away

Not to mention the casual discarding of your younger brother into a river

Either way, it will have been a similar process.

which books says says it was a different process? Or gives the impression of a different process?

Michael C. 🍁

Lol

Your amount of likes gives this a completely different meaning

Wow

@@sethobester9331 😂

Dew covered grass not touched by a human, ridiculously easy to find in a pandemic too~

I did......... I feel attacked

I personally think it'd be slightly easier to do during quarantine lol

I now think there has been a big increase in anemagus

everyone is mute on zoom for a new reason now

It was never explicitly stated but you could interpret it as that. I always thought it was just luck

they didn't say they chose, they said "James and Sirius turned into such large animals, they could keep a werewolf in check" and "peter, the smallest, could slip between the womping willow's branches and touch the knot that froze it"

@@Banned_Hacker96 thanks for the clarification :)

@@Banned_Hacker96 Yes, thanks very much!

i remember taking the patronus test one time just for the heck of it, and it was a sparrowhawk. iirc, your patronus would be the animal you would turn into? i'm not sure on this. but i thought of this while watching the video. it would be lovely to be a bird~

omg

Nope, she's just a very nasty cat, J.K.Rowling said so herself

@@josa310 I personally think JK Rowling lost her own canon. To me, her word isn't worth that much if it doesn't make sense.

@@menestrel821 Exactly. Same goes with this animagus thing. Those instructions don't make sense, unlike stuff from the actual books. She wrote those minibooks because they're easier to write than having to come up with a plot.

lawl, the disrespect is unreal.

It really does, doesn’t it.

Accurate. Honestly, my first thought as well.

lol that joke did not age well...

Oh my gosh! Thanks for so many likes!

sorry to break it to you, but it's still a thing

Can't you Accio the thing from the earth?

@@BioTheHuman gotta know where one is for that to work

@@Davinator2662 No you don't. Mrs. Weasley uses the spell on things she doesn't know the exact location of in book four.

He’s definitely a Ravenclaw

@@SquatLight55 From the perspective of a Ravenclaw myself he definitely acts like one.

@@artemisjr1237 same

*im a ravenclaw*

He’s a closeted Ravenclaw

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SuperCarlinBrothers hi

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*slash splash*

Well spotted! Nice work. 😊

Explain plz

Also he ratted out his friends to Voldemort

UltimateKyuubiFox does this make harry potter a mongoose?

Still makes him a rat, not a snake

This never made sense to me as surely a werewolf would want to eat a stag or dog.

@@jackgibson16 Apparently, werewolfs only get triggered by people in HP universe p.s. I guess, becoming a bird would be OP

@@ruslan_yefimov Also the stag and Sirius AKA The black dog were big enough to put Lupin in his place.

⁠@@jackgibson16 No the werewolf’s only attack humans, like the dementors it doesn’t see animals as a threat. Also lupin stated that when he transformed with his friends, he would sometimes have control over what he was doing and the memories he has of roaming the grounds with his friends were some of the happiest memories of his life.

@@jackgibson16 why? its a mythical creature that does not exit. your reasoning has no real grounds

Nah u a chihuahua 🤣

Dont be ridiculous They have to register because of people like sirius that can slip under the radar if you dont know they can become an animal at will

​@@vermilion6966 How is that ridiculous? You've said why the ministry would WANT them to register, but that doesn't provide a reason for people to decide to register. No perks, and you're on a list of Animagi? It'd be far better for the wizard to have total anonymity in their Animagus form. Think about it, genius.

@@LiveHedgehog The 'reason' is that you will rot in Azkaban if you wont register and will get caught as an unregistered animagus. You know. Like most laws you dont get anything by following them, but be breaking them they will break your neck Its a grown-up world, no one has to give you candies when you follow the laws - follow them or else is the moto

The ministry wants you to register to teleport. I think they'd wanna know what animal you can become 💯

@@generalleboeuf288 I don't think there was much thought in the idea of registering to apparate past it being a parallel to learning to drive - they can only get their licence at the same age as you can get your driving licence, for example.

That's would have been funny to see. XD

@@artemisjr1237 I can also see her helping them because she probably knows about lupin

@Carol_Likes_Dem_ Books Maybe, I'm not sure

@@kmhoneycutt1551 I don't think that she would simply mess things up for them just because of an affiliation with a house. She would have talked to them, gathered information, and then go from there. McGonagall would not just think out of fear. Remember she was not a reactionary type of person. Remember after all she supported Snape and defended Malfoy when he was turned into a weasel.

@@artemisjr1237 thank you, I forgot about that. But I wasn't the one who said that she would mess with the potion

But that means that would be his wand throughout his whole school life.

Jenniflower 65 no he means the one he has at Malfoy Manor, since he lost his original wand when he faked his death

@@thepriorstone4064 oh that would make sense

But if it was Wormtail's wand in the Deathly Hallows, then it means that the "Marauder's Collection" of wands has Peter's wand from when he wasn't even a Marauder, which is still top tier dumb

Asian dragon or Western dragon?

Is he a human sized bat?

😂

Ben is a hufflepuff and J is a ravenclaw!!

It's your choices that show who you really are far more than your abilities.😉

BEN!!🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Do other ravenclaws feel bad about how much he pretends not to be one?

It was not easy

I just watched the bloops on patreon. Yap, wasn't easy 😂😆

I was thinking the same thing. Too funny

@@SuperCarlinBrothers You probably took about 20 takes for that part.

I was laughing every time it popped up XD also that plop sound😂

Wrong because James was the first to transform and it is revealed in the books that it took Peter much time before he can transform.

I know I said laughing really hard to 😂

Me too

*trout.* Get it right

@@freddymeng Trout aren't fish? I said fish. How was that not right?

@@prince_nocturne nah thats right I'm joking

I only liked to be number 100

He was about... 5 months too early

its seems like he does

LOL

How many outtakes are there? 😅

There were a lot of cuts. But I thought the same thing...because I was giggling. I had to watch J's part 2-3 times because I couldn't pay attention to what he was saying.

@Jenny Shull galloping gargoyles, you're absolutely right. I wasn't thinking 😂 thanks, going to correct it immediately 🤦

They probably took about 20 takes for that part.

Did they get sorted again recently?

@@Yolen16 yes

Once a slytherin always a slytherin

RAVENCLAW FOR LIFE

I feel bens pain. For pottermore I am a Slytherin but for everything else ( even if you believe in Zodiac signs) says I’m a hufflepuff since I am a Taurus( though I am on the cusp I Id more as a Taurus than a Gemini)

Somebody tried eating a tree, and now we have cinnamon. Dedicated wizards probably experimented on many hopefully willing subjects, and eventually pieces of the solution started to show promise. The actual process is likely overkill on many steps, but it's a sure method, which makes it safer than improvising or substituting. Since the power of ingredients mainly comes from what they represent, the Marauders could've found some alternatives of equal or greater value.

It reminds me of glitches in different games or absurdly complicated ways to unlock things, and the fact that somebody did it without a guide or anything

Mr12Relic I mean, I get your point but cinnamon trees smell nice

@@Mr12Relic That's nothing to the madness of speed running communities for video games. There is some absurd glitch/exploit skip in San Andres that requires such certain steps and timing, that makes the steps to becoming an Animagus seem like reciting the ABC's in comparison.

People do get sick but have potions and spells to get rid of it like pepperup potion for the flu

Wizards are so nice, creating cures for Cancer and not sharing.

There's spattergroite

What about dragon pox?

@@Drace90 that's injuries though or other non-natural things

isn't that absolutely amazing? well atleast as long as you are not this very human already

Real life Jekyll and Hyde

It’d actually be awesome tho if it looked different.

Or worse. An Inchworm.

Kenneth Pruett reeta skeeter did pretty well

cara brown That’s actually a trout that Ben is throwing into the air

That’s awesome

lol i did that twice and had a small owl and rottweiler

Mine's a dolphin.....would rather be a dog or wolf, some type of K9.

@@sunnfIower man, I read people having all these awesome patronus, like dragons and thestrals, foxes and dolphins. Mines a horse, for some reason specified as a black mare, even though parltronuses.. patroni?- whatever- even though they dont have colours

Mines an owl

Solvem Probler Studios no because he would be a discusting pig so Harry plopper

DaisyIsCrazy SoSheDoesRandomStuff Ah. Simpson’s reference?

THIS

What if he becomes a non hairy trout

PengwengUnicorn Harry Flopper

My headcanon is that she absolutely knew but just didn't say anything.

THIS... (and how did she not notice 3 of her own students in her house doing this) Unless McGonagall helped them?

@Super Greyflash my guess would be he assumed his animagus form would be a wolf (like his patronus) and would not want to become one as he hated his patronus

Super Greyflash I feel like it’s not that he would drop the leaf it’s that since most of this has to be performed under a full moon he would just keep trying to maul his homie and he wasn’t about that life

McGonagall definitely knew probably helped them discreetly aquire the potion ingredients and let them go out during the electrical storm without punishment

I’d be a human

HAHHAA such an underrated comment

Absolutely!!! I'm thinking the same thing every time they appear in the books

Karen Gillan= Lily Evans Aaron Taylor-Johnson= James Potter Ben Barnes= Sirius Black Andrew Garfield= Remus Lupin Jamie Bell= Peter Pettigrew Louis Garrel= Severus Snape

Madeline Wotruba They r too old for that tho

@@abebedesta272 Agreed!!! Plus I don't think they should be super famous actors.

One year = one season

oooo you'll end up eating J , lol

I think I’ll be a stoat coz that’s my patronus and yeah I’d wanna be tyatvanyway

Robyn Stevens Do you mean Ben? The trout.

@@kirstiviojan8218 haha I had no idea his animagus was a trout!

@@kirstiviojan8218 I made this comment before watching the video 😊

Almost like it's a retcon and she never really thought of the process until she decided to write it down huh?

I think Lupin just meant it was a coincidence that they turned into animals that were useful to his situation. I remember it being said before the series ended that Animagi can't choose what they turn into, so it's not just a retcon

Well it's not coincidentally like that because Jk said that there your animagus is most likely to be your patronus

Maybe your form is whatever is useful to you in an important situation

Some ppl say your patronus is your animagus form if you were to be an animagus. It also makes me think, can werewolf’s become animagi?

gundamthey17 yep that’s me surviving the apocalypse

Ayo May 2020 anyone

and... it's may and nothing had changed

It's me from June

IKR

Same way all of our technology has been developed: lots of trial and error and dead people and animals.

Masha I mean yeah but what are the chances that someone decided to put a mandrake leaf in their mouth for a month then make that specific potion

Why do you think there are so few wizards and witches?

That’s 2 questions Just sayin

@@Jthomas-gg9pi plus, as they point out, all the ingredients and rituals necessary have an inherent connection to shapeshifting/death/soul themselves. So people just experimented with those things until someone succeeded in turning into an animal. 😊

Dew from the grass. Not the grass.

Aurora Rowley hahah she knows it all

Or float above the grass on broomsticks.

@@aurorarowley7310 Oh ya oops

You need to get it from a silver spoon I think

Woahh I just realized how sick that is. Also everyone trusts owls and they know where everyone ever is all the time

Have to wait to the next video to find out!

It is unknown still to date. We may never see Ben in his human form again. Only a trout shall remain in his place.

He only put the lemon drop into his mouth for 30 seconds, so...

Better question, is his brother making sure a magical cat isn't trying to catch him?

We will find out tommorrow! (As ben uploades on thursday and it is wednesday for us in england)

Snapes Patronus was a doe symbolizing his love for Lily yet I seriously doubt his animagus would of been a doe as well and Nymphadora Tonks changed her Patronus to a wolf when she fell in love with Remus so your patronus can obviosly change and most likely not one in the same with your Animagus.

@Jillaena Weesies That's what I'm also confused about

@Jillaena Weesies I'm assuming the latter. I think that your patronus can change depending on your new experiences etc, but your animagus will remain the same based on who you were (inc your experiences etc) when you performed the ritual. So they might end up being different. The real question is; Can you cast a patronus while being in your animal form? Like what if your animagus form was that of an elf?

Reading some things on Pottermore (Wizarding world) I came upon this: "Your Animagus and Patronus animal can be the same If a wizard never masters Animagus magic, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll never find out the animal they could’ve been. Another pretty complex form of magic, the Patronus Charm, has been known to mirror it, meaning the animal you cast to attack Dementors could well be your inner animal too. Minerva McGonagall’s Animagus form, for example, is famously a cat, and so is her Patronus." "But realistically, an Animagus is closely linked to your personality" and "the Patronus is ‘a kind of Anti-Dementor - a guardian which acts as a shield between you and the Dementor.’ It’s also ‘a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the Dementor feeds upon - hope, happiness, the desire to survive" So the Patronus isn't actually a representation of your soul at all! It is basically a representation of protection and the will to live, so it naturally takes the form of the wizard's soul (it's animal form, anyway) to probably represent the inner animalistic i-am-going-to-do-anything-to-survive kind of mentality, and If something or someone else starts to represent that will to live (as it happened to Severus and Tonks), then it morphs into somehting else. It will just take the form of what makes you happy and makes you want to move foward (it is kind of sad to think that 'yourself' is not a good enough reason to those two characters, If you look at it through this lense). It takes the form of your animal soul because, in the beguining, you just want to survive and save yourself and this is enough, and then life gets more complicated and it may come a point where there are people you want to save more than yourself. I feel very satisfied with this research :)))

@@lecciciapires2166 That makes a lot of sense actually. It's kinda awesome that they would die for that other person therefore its now their patronus, that's what Love is I guess. So do parents have their kid's patronus like Snape had Lily's? .... What if they have multiple kids, that's awkward 😅

Probably, I mean, there's AT LEAST four unregistered animagi. James Potter I, Sirius Black, Peter Petigrew, and Rita Skeeter. There's probably more we just don't know about. I have a headcannon that Fred and George are.

@@alexiswelsh5821 Yeah I do seem them being animals maybe a fox or something small and sneeky.

Oh my god imagine a bunch of 13-15 year olds going into the black market! RHEY WERE FRICKEN 15 YOU GUYS

@@alexiswelsh5821 what do you think their animagus is?

@@RU-vidKargo Magpie or weasel

summer vacation? winter vacation? faked an injury that required the use of mandrake leaf to heal? put it in his lip like chewing tobaco? Used a spell to make it stick to the roof of his mouth without any gaps?

Your winter vacation is over a month long??

Maybe time Turner

Maybe McGonagall noticed and just secretly indulged it and dropped hints about useful books and spells in lessons?

They didn't do it illegally. They where all registered at the ministry.

Same

Yup

Sunrise Enhanced yeah ikr

Theory: the Carlins are related to Professor Trelawney.

May I ask you what is the name of Rapunzels kingdom?

@@molbotuk6557 I realised that in their Disney Timeline video. (See my comment there😂) P.S It's the Kingdom of Corona

Mhmm

Cats prefer to sleep in cardboard boxes though 🤔

@@yolandaphillips4199 She's ordering the cat bed to get the box XD

@@yolandaphillips4199 She's ordering a cat bed to be able to ignore it ostentatiously :D

Yeah, I'm about 90% sure that she's either Filch's wife or his daughter (If she was the daughter it would make sense why he's a stickler for rules. His own daughter would have suffered by breaking the rules and botching a secret animagus transformation. That's bound to leave a mark on the poor guy).

also you could just pick up the dew next to where you stand? you don't have to actually step on it before collecting it unless the whole "place" turns bad as soon as you step onto one part of the meadow.

Accio dew might work, too, right? Wingardium Leviosa anyone? 😅

@@YukiSilverFox72 I thought of Wingardium Leviosa 😅

Where are ypu gonna find dew that hasnt seen sunlight in 7 days?

@@wesleydamen2018 a creek somewhere in the dark forest outside of Hogwarts.

And Peter’s skill actually. Peter is underrated by everyone and it normally costs them their lives.

​@@lynnerose7891although to be fair, he needed all the help and guidance from James and Sirius along the way for the process.

Claire Chirgott yeah they really need to stop dissing Slytherin it’s gotten to the point where it’s a prejudice and unfounded prejudice just because Voldemort came from slither in does not mean that they are all bad. It’s just not right.

Hmmmmm well than I’m a Phoenix no joke I took the quiz

@@meagankirschbaum3194 I am pretty sure Phoenix isn't on the wizarding world Patronus quiz. There are only 10 fantastic beasts that you can get and Phoenix is not one of them. Here is the algorithm for each Patronus, and yes, it works: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/199cZZOphQIOLddT-UrvrJxmKhTKbDw_h_kH98kBwKSY/htmlview#

Oh thank you I must’ve taken the wrong quiz or an unofficial one at least

@@meagankirschbaum3194 No problem

@@HollyLima-cw7ef but Dumbledore's patronus was Phoenix