Sirius/Tonks

[drjuliehoward]

No: HPFGUIDX 93919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I, Del, wrote :
> 
> > I've read the responses people gave to your post, and unless I 
> > missed some, nobody asked the first and obvious question : how 
> > would she know that ?
> > And the consequent questions : would anyone else know it too 
> > then ? 
> 
> Carol (justcarol67) answered :
> 
> > Dumbledore found out that Sirius was an animagus just after HRH 
> > did, at the end of PoA. Voldemort presumably found out after 
Peter 
> > found him in Albania. 
> 
> Del replies :
> 
> Oops ! I wasn't clear in my previous post. I was commenting on the 
> theory that Bellatrix knew she wasn't fighting the true Sirius 
> Black, but an Animagus in the shape of Sirius Black (Tonks). I was 
> wondering how she could know that this Sirius wasn't the real 
> Sirius, and whether anyone else would have noticed that too, in 
> which case it would be very cruel not to tell Harry that it wasn't 
> Sirius who was killed.
> 
> > > Del :
> > <snip> 
> > > I gave it some thought, and came up with quite a few reasons 
for 
> > > Bellatrix to say "the Animagus Black".
> > > 
> > > 1. She was being redundant. It does happen. Or maybe Pippin (I 
> > > think, sorry otherwise) is right, and it's all part of a 
> > > specific speech pattern.
> > 
> > Carol:
> > Erm, that was my post. :-)
> 
> (Del goes into hiding, her cheeks a brilliant shade of scarlet.)
> I'm sorry Carol !!
> 
> Del

But Tonks is a metamorphmagus.  Why, then, the "Animagus" Black?