Dumbledore an animagus?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4321

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> JUSDUCKY1 at a... wrote:
> 
> > what if Dumbledore can turn into more than one animal? Maybe he 
> > can turn into anything anytime he wants.
> 
> I don't think that's how the spell works. From Rowlings' comments 
> to the effect  that she hopes she'd be an otter, but ick, what if 
> she's a slug or something, I got the impression that you learn the
> spell, which is sort of a "turn me into an animal, one a
> pproximating my nature," and what you get is what you get.

I believe that you, Amanda, have correctly described how the Animagus 
spell works (or, at least, how the wizarding folk BELIEVE it works: I 
have a suspicion that an Animagus who went back to all the work and 
danger of 'learning' the spell again would get a second animal, but 
no one has ever tried it and found out).

However, I also believe that Ducky was suggesting that Dumbledore, as 
a Great Wizard, can turn himself into animal form in some special 
way that combiness the flexibility of Transfiguration with the power 
of Animagery.