[HPforGrownups] Re: Animagi, Hedwig and Forbidden Forest

[Grace]

No: HPFGUIDX 42563


Yoris wrote:
>Also I think dumbledore is a lot like LOTR's gandalf: only to give advise
>and protect, not taking matters into their own hand, not searching for
>confrontations themselves

>So I think there is no reason for him to be an animagus any more then
>whoever else in the WW.


I don't think he needs to be an animagus either.  We already know that lots
of owls have been going Dumbledore from the MoM because Fudge sends them
daily.  Essentially, I get the sense that Dumbledore has his thumb on
everything that goes on and when he encounters a situation (like Buckbeak)
that he knows - and everyone else knows - is really not his place to be, he
defers or works around, problem solving quietly in the background.  I really
don't thik he has the time to spend 2 months of the summer being Hedwig in
order to baby sit Harry.  There are far more important things going on in
the WW than Harry.

CoS, Harry enters Dumbledore's office for the first time.
"It was a larger circular room, full of funny little noises.  A number of
curious silver instruments stood on spindle-legged tables, whirring and
emitting little puffs of smoke."

I think JKR wanted the reader to assume that Dumbledore has a fascination
for gagets.  But I suspect that what he really has is a fascination and a
need for information. It wouldn't be hard to realize that all these little
instruments are information-gathering aids.

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