[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore Cockroach Theory

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54167

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Badger wrote:

> Maybe in the WW 
> there are more Animagi than of which we're aware.  They also chose to 
> (or found out they could) change into an animal, possibly for the 
> sake of convenience or even just fun.  "Why must the Ministry of 
> Magic know?  What business is it of theirs?" could/would be their 
> argument.

I think there are almost certainly many more Animagi than are registered
with the Ministry.  In two years (during PoA and GoF) HHR learned of 4
unregistered animagi (James, Sirius, Peter and Rita), more than half the
number of registered animagi from the entire century.  And those are just
the ones our intrepid heroes ran into at Hogwarts.  There must be many,
many more running around thoughout the rest of the country.  

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"