[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore Animagus?

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42548

Richelle:
> 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.

Have you read Philip Pullman's _His Dark Materials_ trilogy?
His witches can make themselves invisible through concentrating very hard on 
an attitude of mind that makes them blend into the background and become 
unnoticable. They don't become *physically* invisible, it's just that no-one 
can see them. (Will, one of the central human characters of the book likens 
it to the survival technique he's learned of drawing no attention to 
himself.)

I wonder if Dumbledore uses a similar technique. Either that, or he is such a 
powerful wizard that he can literally become invisible at will. This doesn't 
seem a very big step from an animagus transformation, which is pretty huge in 
itself.

Eloise
Who finds she spends much of her life invisible (and inaudible) with no 
effort whatsoever.




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