Dumbledore an animagus?

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 4278

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Neil Ward <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 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
> 

If he is an unregistered animagus, perhaps that's the reason why he 
appeared to take the Sirius/Padfoot thing rather calmly. Lupin had 
misgivings about telling Dumbledore that Sirius was an unregistered 
animagus because he felt guilty. Yet, Dumbledore didn't fire him and 
appeared as thought he wanted Lupin to stay.

:-) Milz