[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin As Volunteer Auror/registry? (WAS Lupin Oddities)

[Jenett]

No: HPFGUIDX 30049

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 Evil1ClaudeRains at aol.com wrote:
> Then again, I could see Hermione looking tediously through roles of parchment 
> and doing tons of research to find this, but I can also imagine her just 
> picking up a book, flipping to the right page and finding it.

If there're are - as we're told - only 7 animagi registered that century, 
it's probably not a very big registry. 
 
My other point, of course, is that finding out if someone is [an
animagus/a werewolf] when you *already have a suspicion they might be [an
animagus/werewolf], is that that's an entirely different proposition from
"There might be something weird about this person, and I want the dirt,
but I have no idea what the 'something weird' might be."

The former involves checking a specific registry (quite small in the case
of animagi, probably at least a good bit larger in the case of werewolves,
assuming, of course, there is such a thing.) for a specific name. The
latter involves checking a whole bunch of different sources for that name,
and is a great deal more problematic. It'd probably be easier, actually, 
if you were doing it as a job check or some other legitimate non-secret 
than to go through any level of red tape for ministry files. 

-Jenett