McGonnagal the cat

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No: HPFGUIDX 18659

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Rachel Hardisty delurked to write:
> 
> >Also, if Dumbledore taught transfiguration before Minerva, isn't 
it a 
> >bit strange that HE'S not an animagus?  I know that if he turned 
out 
> >to be another unregistered animagus it would be a boring plotline 
> >since we already have found 4, but even so.
> 
> Welcome to the surface, Rachel!
> 
> He could be a registered one and Hermione, who seems only to have 
> checked the 20th century ("there have only been seven Animagi this 
> century," PA 18), wouldn't have found that out.  Dumbledore was 
born 
> c. 1845, so he could have become an Animagus long before the 
century 
> turned.

It is certainly possible that Dumbledore is an animagus who was 
registered in the previous century, but I think it is also possible 
that Dumbledore is one of the 7 Animagi registered in the 20th 
century.  There is no reason for Hermione to have said "there have 
only been seven Animagi this century, one of whom is Professor 
Dumbledore"  It is possible that Hermione did not think it was 
important (there was an awful lot going on at the time, after all) to 
mention that Dumbledore was one of the seven.  Another possibility is 
that the fact that Dumbledore is an animagus is so well known that 
there was no point in her mentioning it.  Anyway, I have never 
understood why everyone except me seems to believe that Dumbledore 
could not be one of those seven.

--Joywitch