Headmaster Kamba asked curiously, "Wizet, how did you think of that?"
Wizet recalled what had just happened. "Based on my understanding of 'similarity' in Sympathetic Magic, it can be applied in many different areas."
"Take the final step in becoming an animagus, for example. After we drink the potion and hear the second heartbeat, animal instincts take control."
Out of the corner of his eye, Headmaster Kamba caught the words "Dark Magic" in Wizet's notebook and immediately guessed what he meant. "Dark Magic... so that's what you mean?"
"Animal instincts affect the soul, just as casting Dark Magic without restraint affects the soul. That's a manifestation of 'similarity' in Sympathetic Magic."
"Exactly!" Wizet replied. "When I first began studying the animagus transformation, Minerva McGonagall gave me quite a lot of material."
"It included many examples of failures. From those failures, I reached this conclusion: foxes represent cunning, wolves represent impulsiveness, rabbits represent timidity..."
Headmaster Kamba stroked his beard, recalling what Wizet had murmured earlier. "So you believe these animals' temperaments... are actually negative personality traits."
"It's like certain wizarding superstitions..." Wizet nodded and tried to offer some examples. "In Divination, a large black dog often represents ill fortune..."
"A large black dog is also the most powerful of ill omens, an omen symbolizing death... A friend of mine worried about that for a long time. For a while, he kept seeing a large black dog that supposedly heralded misfortune."
"When he finally met the large black dog, he discovered that it wasn't an ill omen bringing death, but a good omen bringing happiness. Perhaps he'd forgotten that dogs also represent loyalty and protection."
"Cuckoos are much the same..." Wizet offered another example. "Although they symbolize hope, they lay their eggs in other birds' nests."
"What I'm trying to say is...