[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore animagus.../something of Aberworth

[Edward Post]

No: HPFGUIDX 51977


>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore animagus.../something of Aberworth
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:12:16 -0000
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, The Sparrow wrote:
> >
> > I've heard this too. I don't know about him being a
> > vampire in every sense,but it is quite possible he is
> > an unregistered animagi. It has been suggested that
> > Dumbledore is animagi too, as he was Transfiguration
> > teacher befor McGonnagall. His mame has also been
> > reported to mean 'white bee'. If Rita Skeeter can
> > transfigure, surely Dumbledore can!

finwitch replied:
>
>Yes, I'm quite positive that Albus Dumbledore can turn himself into
>an animal. Being 150 years old, he'd not be on Hermione's list
>of "registered animagi of this century". It is, however, uncertain
>whether animagi were required to register when Dumbledore became one.
>(Possibly during _his_ time at Hogwarts-- 135+ years ago...)
>
>And well, if someone's been an animagus for 100+ years, it may well
>have been forgotten now.

To which I (Ed) reply:


I wonder if this has been discussed before.  My own silly theory is that 
Dumbledore can become a  . . . (get this) . . . a fly!!?!

As weird as that sounds, that is consistent with Dumbledore's telling Harry 
early on in the series that he, Dumbledore, doesn't need an invisibility 
cloak to be unnoticed ("if I could be a fly on the wall").  What got me 
thinking about it is the scene in PoA when Harry's about to take his 
Divination exam.  Harry's the last one to take his exam -- and I think Ron's 
second to last.  Just after Ron ascends to the classroom, Harry's 'alone' 
and one of his observations is the buzzing of a fly.  I got to wondering 
about that arguably throw-away phrase -- but thought it was a bit odd to 
have there for no reason.

Whether or not the fly was Dumbledore, I wondered if the fly had anything to 
do with inducing the trance Trelawney was in when she gave her unconscious 
prediction??

Counting against this, for me, is lovely Rita (mo)Skeeter.  The device of 
commenting on an insect that later turned out to be an animagus was used in 
GoF.

That's just been a silly little thought I've had.

Ed

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