[HPforGrownups] Another Dumbledore Speculation

[Samaporn Teeravechyan]

No: HPFGUIDX 16819

At 04:11 PM 4/15/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Jenny said:
>
><<I was just thinking about Harry Potter (what a shock) and got to wondering
>about Dumbledore's days as the Transfiguration Professor (which we learned
>in CoS, if I'm not mistaken).  Does that mean that he is also an animagus?
><snip> I also remember Dumbledore telling Harry (in SS) that he doesn't need
>an invisibility cloak to become invisible.  Any thoughts?>>

>We could argue that Hermione would have spotted Dumbledore's name among the
>registered animagi (as Catherine just noted), but perhaps Dumbledore was
>registered in a much earlier time (i.e. listed on an earlier page of the
>Register), or perhaps - shock! - he's unregistered. 

Perhaps she did see it and never bothered to mention it. But to support
your suggestion that Dumbledore was registered earlier, Hermione mentions
that there were seven registered animagi -this century-. I think it's
entirely possible that he was registered in the last century, and therefore
wasn't on the list Hermione was looking at.

>Milz raised this a while back, and I had this theory that Dumbledore was a
>bee animagus, because Dumbledore is an old English word meaning bumblebee
>(according to JKR). 

That certainly is an interesting suggestion. But I'm hoping for a more
powerful/flamboyant, if any, transfiguration form for Dumbledore; maybe a
phoenix or something. The bee form is a neat explanation for Dumbledore's
'invisibility', but that sort of implies that Dumbledore decided to
spy/check up on Harry. Not that it's not possible, but I favour the idea
that Dumbledore was already in the room before Harry entered, on both
occasions, and that he and Ron somehow failed to notice that he was there.
Maybe he was just in the shadows and kept very, very still ... ? That's
just a random thought, since I don't have the book to back me up.

Samaporn


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