Dumbledore the bumblebee? Not likely

[Priscilla Spencer]

No: HPFGUIDX 20036

I regret not jumping into this thread back when we were discussing it last
week, but I have to express my opinion that Dumbledore is not an animagus.
For starters, when asked where the name "Dumbledore" came from, Jo said
without hesitation that it was an old English word for "bumblebee". She then
explained that she thought of him as someone who went around humming to
himself (hence the love for chamber music). While this may be an example of
humans strongly resembling their animagi counterparts, do you really believe
that Jo would have given away such an obvious and vital clue if she had
planned to surprise us with that revelation later in the series?

This is another reason why I believe the revelation about Lily in #7 (the
Kneesocks of Fear -- order your copy today!) won't have anything to do with
her surname "Evans". While the "Severus Snape = Perseus Evans" theory was
fairly intriguing, I don't think anything will come of it. I can't remember
Jo ever pulling off a shocker based entirely on facts handed to us on an
interview's silver platter. No matter how much fun I think analysis of these
books can be, members of this group can be rather prone to overanalysis. Oh
well. At least we're not a group of Elizabeth Schafers.

Priscilla Spencer
http://www.theninemuses.net/hp