Bungy the budgie

[lucilaperezlascano]

No: HPFGUIDX 71709

Hi, my name is Lucila, I'm an Argentinian 22 year old girl, and this 
is my first post.

I was wondering if any of you thought that Bungy, the water-skiing 
budgie, could actually be an animagus.

I don't know what this could mean in future books, but I'll tell you 
what made me suspicious:

1- it first comes up on page 9 OoP (UK edition) when Harry listens 
the newsreader's voice:

"-and finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool 
this summer. Bungy, who lives at the Five Feathers in Barnsley, has 
learned to water ski! Mary Dorkins went to find out more."  

-- so, we are told a budgerigar has learnt to water ski, which at 
least to me is weird; and JK bothers to tell us were it lives


2- The fact is stressed by Harry's thoughts:

"If they had reached water-skiing budgerigars, there would be
nothing 
else worth hearing."

3- We are reminded of it later, on page 15 (OoP – UK ed):

"And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid 
weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to 
squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-
skiing budgerigars!"

I also think it might have something to do with Benjy Fenwick; Moody, 
while showing Harry the photo, says: "he copped it too, we only
ever 
found bits of him" (p.158 OoP UK ed.)
"Benjy" sounds very similar to "Bungy"
 but somehow,
I don't believe 
JK would use the same trick she used with Peter Petigrew/Scabbers. 
Perhaps this time it's not an animagus, but a wizard that has
been 
transfigured by someone else (like Crouch-Moody did to Draco)

and 
then he couldn't go back to normal (or maybe he didn't want
to).

I'd like to know what you think about it.

Lucila.