Death in Book 5 - My guess

[gingersnape1966 <gingersnape1966@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49632

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com,
> In a message dated 10/01/2003 20:31:10 Eastern Standard Time, 
> stormlass at y... writes:
> 
> 
> > Actually, Rowling did mention in some interview
> > that Harry may have a new pet soon.  I have
> > personally wondered if Hedwig is an animagus.  Is
> > that too far fetched?  Hagrid picked her. 

To which Snuffles replied (in part): 
> BUT! I would think that if Hedwig were an animagus, Crookshanks 
would have at 
> some point tried to let everyone know.  After all, our big flat 
faced ginger 
> friend is very good at knowing when something isn't what it appears 
to be.

me:  Quite true. Sirius said in ch. 19 of PoA that Crookshanks had 
recognized both him and Peter as animagi, but he (Crookshanks) kept 
trying to attack Peter, but helped Sirius (although it took a while 
to gain Crookshanks' trust).  

Personally, I am with those who think another animagus would be 
overkill, and of course our Hermione did look up all the registered 
animagi for the last century.  She would have certainly noticed 
Hedwig.  Which means that Hegwig is:

 1) at least 120 years old and was registered last century (I have 
wondered the same about Dumbledore as he is 150 and was certainly 
capable over 100 years ago), whom Crookshanks has no reason to 
mistrust, 

 2) an unregistered anamagus, perhaps an Unspeakable who is excepted 
from registery for security reasons, or 

 3) not an animagus at all.

As far as Harry's new pet-I vote for Snuffles 

Just a thought about Hagrid picking Hedwig:  After I saw the movie, I 
had the same notions in my head, but after rereading PS/SS, I found 
that Hagrid only paid for her.  He and Harry were both there for the 
picking out.  He did nudge Harry towards getting an owl, though. 
Hmmmm....

Ginger (whose fur is quite a different colour than Crookshanks')