Not-so-omniscient Dumbledore??

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pigwidgeon37" <pigwidgeon37 at y...> wrote:

> But how could he possibly have remained ignorant about MWPP? IIRC, 
> Peter, James and Sirius were full-fledged animagi in their fifth 
> year, which means two more school years of unbridled marauding. It 
> seems unthinkable that the regular absence of three notorious 
> pranksters, at nighttime during every full moon, should have 
escaped 
> *everybody's* notice, above all Dumbledore's. I mean, he knew that 
> Harry was sneaking out in the night to look into the Mirror of 
> Erised! 
> And Lupin himself says that sometimes, during their outings, they 
got 
> very close to provoking some major incident. Surely, some rumours 
> would have arrived from Hogsmeade about four strange animals 
haunting 
> the village at the full moon. And D. didn't put two and two 
together?

I think its reasonable that D knew pretty much all about their 
marauding, the monthly adventures, the sneaking out, without actually 
suspecting that they were doing it in animal form.
After all, animagi are pretty few and far between, so no one, not 
even D would suspect that three youngsters were capable, unless they 
physically saw them out and about, which D never need have done.


Carl