Order of the Phoenix

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No: HPFGUIDX 22177


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., prefectmarcus at y... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Glenda and Danny Millgate" 
> <millgate at a...> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Katie decided that Dumbledore must also be an Animagus 
> [snip] 
> > 
> > I doubt it.  I base my doubts primarily on one thing.  Animagi are 
> > supposed to register. 
> > but being an un-registered animagus appears to be a serious 
offense.
> 


Dumbledore himself knows of no less than 4 unregistered animagi- 3 
living - 5 if he knows about Rita (but I don't think Hermione told him 
- yet) and he hasn't done anything to initiate prosecution.  If 
Dumbledore doesn't deem this important, then I guess it must not be 
*that* serious.

I don't know about the whole animagus thing - it's supposed to be very 
complicated, yet 4 students are able to perfect it.  Surely other 
wizards have the ability; what are the odds that 4 school buddies 
could do it, but only a handful of full-fledged wizards could?  Rita 
Skeeter doesn't impress me as especially gifted as a wizard, yet she's 
able to transform- sure she's not *supposed* to, but that moral 
dilemma has nothing to do with the *ability*.  McGonagall 
demonstrates in front of the entire class (and, we presume, in front 
of *all* her classes because she says that it never fails to get some 
kind of response, or some such thing).  If nearly all the students are 
aware of the ability, and if it can be mastered by 
less-than-gifted wizards, it just seems like there should be more 
registered animagi.  That there are not more registered animagi makes 
me believe that there are quite a few unregistered animagi.  

Brian