[HPforGrownups] Re: DD an animagus?

[JuHu]

No: HPFGUIDX 90333

Tanya said:
  
> Just one thing to add.  Hermione got the animagus
> list, sure, but it
> was a list of all the animagus witches and wizards
> within the past 100
> years. As Dumbledore is older than that, He could of
> easily managed
> the skill in under 50 years and be off the list in
> regards to time line.

Now me:

I don't believe it would be smart for the MoM to just
take off those when a century has expired. Being the
paranoid lot that they are, they'd keep all Animagi
registered until they are darn sure that they were
dead. Another thing to consider is that Hermione saw
the list, *we* (AKA Harry) didn't. And what she
informs us is that, 

"We did Animagi in class with Professor McGonagall.
And I looked them up when I did my homework- the
Ministry of Magic keeps tabs on witches and wizards
who can become animals; there's a register showing
what animal they become, and their markings and things
. . . and I went and looked Professor McGonagall up on
the register, and there have been only seven Animagi
this century, and Pettigrew's name wasn't on the list-
" ("Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs" US p. 351)

This doesn't rule out the possibility that Hermione
saw previous centuries. She was just telling Lupin
what she saw, and trying to make him see reason. This
also wasn't an appropriate time and place to throw
over to Harry, Ron and the reader, "Oh, and by the
way, Dumbledore is an Animagus, too. He turns into a
purple hippogriff." Hermione doesn't always give Harry
and Ron more information than they *need to know*,
such as Lupin being a werewolf.

JuHu, envying Tonks her metamorphmagus ability 

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