DD an animagus

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90341

> Carol:
> In fact, he was *her* Transfiguration
> > teacher, meaning that he must have taught her how to transform into 
> a cat.

Jim Ferer wrote <snipped>
> Was Dumbeldore in fact McGonagall's teacher?  Maybe.  I don't know 
> who else it would have been.  With McGonagall as Assistant 
> Headmistress, does this mean that Transfiguration teacher is the 
> first among equals of the staff? I believe it is.

Carol again:
I hadn't thought about McGonagall as "first among equals," but I
suppose she is. The other Heads of Houses (Snape, Flitwick, Sprout)
would be next in rank, then the other professors (Binns, Sinistra,
Trelwney, and Vector?), then the mere instructors (Hagrid and Madam
Hooch), along with the staff members like Madams Pomfrey and Pince.
Filch, I suppose, is at the bottom.

As for Dumbledore being McGonagall's Transfiguration teacher, he was
Tom Riddle's and they were only a few years apart. (I thought it was
six or seven years--now it appears closer to three.) Dumbledore would
have been about 100 then, and presumably had been teaching at Hogwarts
for a good many years before that. I assume he was Head of Gryffindor
House then, too, but of course I could be wrong on that.

Carol