Okay, so why wasn’t anything ever done to prevent animangi on Hogwarts grounds?
We have evidence in cannon of three separate people using their animangs form to sneak onto the Hogwarts grounds.
Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that they never figured out Rita, you’d think that after PoA they’d at least sort out a way to check the children’s pets.
My god, imagine the potentional for a pretator to groom a child by pretending to be their beloved cat for years. Kids are weird. Their pet might be their bestfriend who they tell everything to and then one day, bam! A grown ass adult coming in knowing all their deepest inner thoughts.
Not to mention an older person running around with free access to the castle. Ugh.
I get that it’s a children’s series and all. But seriously???