[HPforGrownups] Karkaroff...an animagus??

[Betty Landers]

No: HPFGUIDX 45577

Original Message -----
> From: "barefootpuppets" <heidi at barefootpuppets.com>
> > Learning to be an animagus is hard work and requires oversight.  Was
> > Krum assisted by Karkaroff?  In Book 4, as Krum and Harry are
> > conversing by the edge of the forest and see Crazed!Crouch, there is
> > a brief mention of a silvery coloured bird looking though Hagrid's
> > window.  Karkaroff is always referred to as "wearing silver-fur
> > trimmed coat"...could it be that Karkaroff is an animagus?
Betty:
No.  The way the passage is written, it seems that Dumbledore sent out a summoning signal to Hagrid, which happened to look like a silvery bird.
Here's the passage
*****
    "Should I go and get someone?" said Harry. "Madam Pomfrey?"

    "No," said Dumbledore swiftly. "Stay here."

    He raised his wand into the air and pointed it in the direction
of Hagrid's cabin. Harry saw something silvery dart out of it and
streak away through the trees like a ghostly bird. Then Dumbledore
bent over Krum again, pointed his wand at him, and muttered,
"Ennervate."
*****
So it definitely came from Dumbledore's wand.
Betty