[HPforGrownups] Re: DD an animagus?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 90353

JuHu quoted:
>
>"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)
>

Now, about this Dumbledore/Animagus thing, JKR said in her interview that 
there would be no more *unregistered* Animagi, right?  And Hermione looked 
in the register and didn't see Dumbledore, right?

Not necessarily. She said she didn't see Pettigrew's name, and that she did 
see McGonagall's.  She says there are seven names on the list -- but doesn't 
tell us who the other six are. All we know is that none of them are 
Pettigrew (or James or Sirius).

For all we know, Dumbledore is a *registered* Animagus, right there for 
anyone to see who wanted to look it up.  And Hermione, who can certainly 
keep a secret, might not have mentioned it, either because she thinks it 
might be an important piece of information to have up her sleeve, or because 
Dumbledore or McGonagall asked her not to.


Janet Anderson

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