Dumbledore the animagus?

[nkittyhawk97]

No: HPFGUIDX 83397

All right, it's a strange theory (and believe me, I don't usually 
come up with strange theories). It sort of happened while rereading 
Book 1 looking for ANY clues as to what Rowling has up her sleeve.

(On pg 211, US version) Ron and Harry are looking into the Mirror of 
Erised, and Ron sees himself as Quidditch Captain and Head Boy. Not 
long after, a cat passes by, and they *assume* that it's Mrs. Norris.

"After what seemed an age, she turned and left."

Surely, if it were Mrs. Norris, she would have immediately cried out 
for Filch - but the cat didn't. It only stood there, and eventually 
left.

The next time Harry visits the Mirror (pg 213 US version), 
Dumbledore is there.

"And it showed your friend Ron as head boy."
"How did you know - "
"I don't need a cloak to become invisible,"

So, obviously, Dumbledore was in the room with Ron and Harry that 
night (or at least outside listening). How else would he know what 
Ron saw?

At the end of PoA, Hermione mentioned that she had checked the list 
for registered animagi for the PAST CENTURY. We all know DD is more 
than a hundred years old, so he could have registered before that.

At the end of Book 1, when Harry and Dumbledore talk in the Hospital 
Wing, (pg 299, US version) it says that "Dumbledore now became very 
interested in a bird on the windowsill." Animagi (as we have noticed 
from Sirius's 'dog like' qualities) tend to show certain traits of 
the form of animal they become. I'd say most cats are interested in 
birds.

In OotP (don't know which page) where Fudge and all those ministry 
workers are knocked out in DD's office, Dumbledore says something 
about not having to go into hiding when he left the school.(Could it 
be because a cat wouldn't have to hide from the Ministry?) He also 
said to Fudge that even if he WAS sent to Azkaban, he could easily 
break out. Let's not just say "Dumbledore's extremely powerful, he 
could manage it." There has to be a way for him to KNOW that he can 
escape. Well, as Sirius had already demonstrated, animals can easily 
get past the Azkaban guards... 

IF Dumbledore IS an animagus, wouldn't it be fitting that he 
taught... oh, I don't know - Transfiguration? Well, according to Tom 
Riddle, he did. 

Rowling never puts in these little tidbits for the heck of it - so I 
cannot honestly dismiss the idea without canon disproving it.

So, is the theory really THAT nuts?


"nkittyhawk97"