hey everyone welcome to another installment of harry potter theory in today's video we're going to be exploring a little lesson in harry potter history and taking a look at the history of the fabled animagus more specifically i'm going to be revealing to you all the first three recorded but unregistered anime guy that is the first three ancient witches and wizards that were able to shapeshift an animagus simply put is a witch or wizard that is able to transform themselves into an animal and back again animagus is a combination of the word animal and the greek word magus meaning animal wizard it is an extremely rare and difficult ability to master so much so that it requires you to register your knowledge of this ability with the ministry but that wasn't necessary in a pre-ministry world an animagus will typically have an animal form they transform into that is closely linked to their personality and inner traits further to this the animagus form of a witch or wizard will almost always resemble their patronus form as well throughout the series we're introduced to quite a few anime guy mcgonagall a cat pettigrew a rat series black a dog james potter a stag rita skeeter a beetle and if you're thinking that this list looks short well then you'd be right becoming an animagus is no easy feat in fact so few people have actually achieved this magical feat that the ministry of magic requires all anime guy to register their animaker's status but the ancient witches and wizards i want to talk about today existed in a pre-ministry era in fact some of these witches and wizards were from an entirely different part of the world all together i'm going to work backwards starting with the third known animagus and working my way towards the first recorded animagus to grace the wizarding world let's get into it morgana leffey in case you weren't already aware the morgana left from harry potter mentioned on a chocolate frog card in the series was inspired by a pseudo-historical figure most commonly referred to by some derivation of the same name morgan morgen just morgana you name it further to this if we look at her in a pseudo-historical context we can see where inspiration was drawn for the witch in harry potter morgana is a tough pseudo-historical figure to summarize because across many pieces of literature she has been reintroduced with so many different names titles and abilities perhaps the most interesting thing about morgana's character however is her moral ambivalence and how it evolved through folklore early appearances of morgan do not elaborate her character beyond her role as a goddess a fae a witch or a sorceress generally benevolent and related to king arthur as his magical savior and protector her prominence increased over time as did her moral ambivalence and in some texts there is an evolutionary transformation of her to an antagonist the concept of morgana that we're most familiar with first appears in writer jeffrey of monmouth's work entitled vita mullini or the life of merlin which was written in NUMBER_TOKEN in this version of vita mullini
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