Dumbledore Cockroach Theory

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 54079

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "happyduck1979" <swirskyr at r...>
wrote:
> Hi!  I know that none of you have ever seen me before, but I have 
> been lurking here for a while now.  I love the books (and the movies 
> although not nearly as much) and recently convinced my husband to 
> read them as well.  As such I am rereading them myself.

Thanks for joining us.  We all love the books (there's another list
for movie people) and are glad to have you and your husband at the
party.  Since Cockroach Clusters gross you out, why don't you try one
of these Canary Creams.  Or maybe just your husband if he hasn't got
that far into the story.

  I was lying 
> in bed last night and I came up with a theory that I had not seen 
> posted before and I was wondering what other people think of it.
> 
> Many people have questioned whether or not Dumbledore is an 
> animagnus.  I figure that since he taught transfiguration before 
> McGonagall the chances are probably pretty good that he can transform 
> into something. 

I agree that he must be an animagus.  I just can't accept that such a
powerful wizard, a headmaster who once once the transfig teaher
wouldn't be.

> There are a few clues to this idea in the book, but 
> they are not anything big.
> 
> Let's start with insects habbits.  We know that Dumbledore found his 
> way to a magic room full of beautiful chamberpots.  This would fit as 
> a room that would appeal to a cockroach.  They tend to live in 
> rather distastefull locations.  They also chase down sugar which 
> *might* explain Dumbledore taste for sweets (although I have to 
> wonder if that means that McGonagle enjoys the taste of meow-mix).

Witch cats prefer birds and rats, at least Crookshanks seems to. 
Don't know about Mrs. Norris, but in that big old castle, there should
be plenty to eat even if it's just kitchen scraps.
> 
> Now it is that taste for sweets that seems to provide passwords for 
> Dumbledore's office.  Is there anything that sounds more disgusting 
> then cockrach clusters?  There has to me more to it then just a 
> wizarding treat that we have not yet come accross anywhere else.

I took it as a clue that Rowling was a Monty Python fan, a fact that
she later confirmed.  That is areally nasty sketch about the sweets
(including Cockroach Clusters).  but don't watch it if you couldn't
handle Ron puking slugs, you won't be able to handle that guy who
keeps throwing up.  Or maybe Dumbledore is the MP fan?  He keeps up
with Muggle culture.
> 
> Now, I also think that there might be some truth to the idea that 
> people who can transform into animals can recognize other people who 
> can transform into animals.  I think that Lupin might know 
> Dumbledore's secret.  He might even think that Dumbledore *was* aware 
> of what happened all those years ago in the Shreiking Shack.  He 
> would have been small enough to get into the hole under the whomping 
> willow.  This would explain why the boggart changed from a sphere 
> (the full moon) to a cockroach.  He may think it is funny that 
> Dumbledore has this absurd alter ego that no one knows about that he 
> discovered *becasue* of his issue with the full moon and the fact 
> that he transforms into another type of animal.

My theory is that he transforms into a bumblebee.  That doesn't fit in
with his love of muggle sweets, bees prefer nector, but it does
explain how he can get around Hogwarts unseen.  A bumblebee in the
dark would be invisible even without a cloak.

Do you think Lupin is scared of cockroaches?  I don't know why that
cockroach appeared, could be someone else in the room or maybe the
bogart was just confused.  Rowling doesn't provide enough information
for me to speculate further.

> 
> "happyduck1979"

And welcome to the group, I like ducks, are you an animagi?

sirius kase