[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore Animagus?

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 42545

Ginny writes:

> I'm not caught up, so I apologize if this is a repeat of anything in
> the last 100 messages or so.
>
> 1.  Is Dumbledore an animagus, and if so what form?  I agree that he
> ought to be, and that a bumblebee makes sense from etymology (which
> is, interestingly enough, only one letter different than entymology,
> assuming I'm spelling correctly).  However, if that were the case,
> it would have been very easy for JK to slip little hints and
> foreshadowings in.  So-and-so swats at a bee that seems to be very
> interested in their conversation, someone hears a buzzing nearby but
> it flies away before they see it, like that.  But she didn't.  Or at
> least I don't remember anything like that.  Anyone prove me wrong?

I can't think of any bees or buzzing, however, there is the statement
Dumbledore made to Harry at the Mirror of Erised.  "I don't need a cloak to
become invisible."  Did he mean literally invisible?  I don't know that
there's any canon to support that a wizard can be invisible without
assitance of a cloak or some such thing.  So perhaps he didn't mean
literally invisible?  In a castle the size of Hogwarts, a bumblebee flying
high overhead would not be noticed.  Especially in a room with the Mirror of
Erised and Harry's attention focused on that.  There's also the fact that
Harry thought he "must have walked straight past him [Dumbledore], so
desperate to get to the mirror he hadn't noticed him."   Or perhaps he was
in Bumblebee form, much easier to miss than a full grown wizard like
Dumbledore!  He could've been waiting as a bumblebee and transfigured after
Harry walked by him.  I've always found it a little odd that Harry would
completely not notice Dumbledore sitting on a desk, no matter how desperate
he was to get to the mirror.

Richelle