[HPforGrownups] Hedwig and Dumbledore

[Heather Glude]

No: HPFGUIDX 31912

On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 06:27 PM, scarlet_starstick wrote:
> Dumbledore taught transfiguration.  Hence he must be an Animagus.

I don't buy this. I don't think that animagus are just transfigurations. 
There's too much to it. If it's the same, why is it only one animal? 
Doesn't follow. I don't think Dumbledore is an animagus, and I don't 
think he'd be Hedwig if he were.

> So far [the list of registered animagi] goes:
>
> Sirius Black (padfoot)
> Rita Skeeter (the beetle)
> Professor McGonagall (the cat)
> James Potter (the stag)
> Peter Pettigrew (wormtail)

As a couple of people have said, of this list, only McGonagall appears 
to be registered.

> That leaves two more.  One is Professor Lupin, but the question is,
> do warewolves count as transfiguration?  Also, is Professor Lupin's
> brother Remus a warewolf too?

I'm positive werewolves don't count as animagi. They're too numerous to 
be a part of the list of only 6 in a century, and, besides, they simply 
aren't animagi. Professor Lupin is Remus Lupin. If he had a brother 
(which I can't remember a reference to off the top of my head) the 
brother probably wouldn't be a werewolf, unless he got bitten by the 
same wolf that bit Remus, or by Remus himself - which could be 
interesting.

Heather G.