Dumbledore the animagus?

[finduilasmydarkdreamer]

No: HPFGUIDX 83420

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkittyhawk97" 
<nkittyhawk97 at y...> wrote:
> 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?

SnapesRaven:
Yes, that's a good question! Until no I thought Dumbledore just knows 
all this because his magical powers allow him to receive information 
from things and not only from living creatures. I have been satisfied 
with the Mrs Norris explanation because I was so thrilled to see what 
happens when Ron looks into the mirror. But even if this should be 
only a game of thoughts, it is very interesting to do so.



> 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.

SnapesRaven:
This is a hint worthwhile pursuing, I think. Rita Skeeter might 
confirm this theory because her whole behaviour is that of a greedy 
little insect. 
On the other hand, I think it's quite difficult to tell whether JKR 
mentioned the bird as a means of characterizing Dumbledore's patient, 
rather silent nature or if this was really a hint on his possible 
animagus self.

> 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

SnapesRaven:
That's definitely a point!

  
> - so I cannot honestly dismiss the idea without canon disproving it.
> 
> So, is the theory really THAT nuts?
> 
> 
> "nkittyhawk97"

I don't think that's nuts at all... I haven't pondered all this 
before but now that I read it it sounds almost natural to me.
: )

SnapesRaven