[HPforGrownups] Karkaroff...an animagus??

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 45583

barefootpuppets, who didn't sign his/her post (if you pick a name like that,
be *proud* of it, *use* it!) said:

> I was re-reading Book 4 (again) and had a thought...

You mean, other than "We have *got* to get some new material to work with,
here..."?
>
> 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?

I doubt there is a connection. Fur of any kind implies wealth; silver
implies silver fox; it also is remiscent of the silvery-blonde Malfoys, neh?

I, personally, hereby state that I will buy a bag of Bertie Botts Beans for
each and every member of this list if any more unregistered animagi show up
in Book 5.* I'm not really expecting any more at all, but I *definitely*
don't think we'll meet any in the next book. It's too familiar now,
something we're looking for. JKR is nothing if not inventive; there'll be
*new* stuff. You just wait.

--Amanda
<trance>while you're waiting, some of you guys (you know who you are) might
start drafting your profuse verbal apologies for the abuse that's been
heaped on the heads of the Snape-Lilyists, for that, too, will be borne
out....</trance>

*or Polyjuice Plot Ploys