future animagi?

[Dominique Medal]

No: HPFGUIDX 47226

Chris (christopher_g_nuttall at hotmail.com) said:
> Sirus is a dog, while miniva is a cat.  Could Dumbledore be a 
> bumblebee, and Draco a dragon?

I doubt that JK will introduce any more Animagi. We already have James 
Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Rita Skeeter as (illegal) 
Animagi, and the only Animagus registered with the Ministry who has 
been mentioned by name is Minerva McGonagall, although there are a few. 
We already have quite a number of Animagi hanging about, and it's not 
like Rowling to reuse something like that many times.

Plus, I see too much significance placed in the person's name in that 
quote. Dumbledore may mean bumblebee, but I'd bet that Albus is much 
more likely to be a phoenix Animagus. Draco seems an unlikely Animagus, 
and he's probably named after the Greek tyrant Draco, from whose name 
we get the word draconian. "Peter Pettigrew" and "James Potter" do not 
indicate their Animagus forms. "Sirius Black" does bear quite a bit of 
significance, though, as does "Remus Lupin" (although Remus is not an 
Animagus). "Rita Skeeter," as has been mentioned before, indicates an 
insect form. I recall nothing about McGonagall's name that insinuates 
that she is a cat Animagus.
I doubt that Dumbledore is an Animagus. If he were registered, Hermione 
would have mentioned it when she mentioned in PoA the number of Animagi 
registered with the Ministry. I also think the illegal Animagus has 
reached the end of its usefulness.

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