Another Dumbledore Speculation

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 16824

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Samaporn Teeravechyan <teeravec at f...> 
wrote:
> 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.

I've thought that the law for registering animagus tranformation 
attempts may only have been passed about a century before, so that 
Hermiones list was the complete list since the law was passed.  As you 
only had to register if you were attempting it, existing animagi 
wouldn't need to be registered.  Dumbledore would have been about 50 
at the time and could easily already be an animagus.  I'm sure 
Hermione would have said if she'd seen Dumbledore on the list.

If Dumbledore were a bee animagus (and to me it does seem in 
character) will he use his sting as he dies?

Florence