[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore an animagus?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 4275

Milz wrote:

>This is just a thought, but considering Dumblebore was the 
>Transfiguration Teacher, could he also be an un-registered animagus? 
>There's a part in SS that's always puzzled me...Harry tells
>Dumbledore that they sent an owl to him in London. Dumbledore replies that he 
>didn't get the owl and that they must have passed each other in the 
>air (or something like that). I thought at first Dumbledore was 
>traveling via broomstick, but wouldn't he have noticed the owl? Also, 
>'dumbledore' is an archaic word meaning "bumblebee".

Good point.  There's also the bit in PS, when Harry is visiting the Mirror
of Erised and Dumbledore appears from nowhere.  Harry had apparently walked
past Dumbledore to get into the room, and Dumbledore makes a comment about
being invisible making Harry "near-sighted". Later, he tells Harry "I don't
need a cloak to become invisible...".  A bumblebee sitting on the table
would be virtually invisible. 

I'm not so sure that Dumbledore would be an unregistered Animagus, and that
raises an inconsistency: why didn't Hermione see his name listed as one of
the registered Animagi?  It's a nice idea though.

Neil

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