DD admits he's an animagus

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No: HPFGUIDX 118050


John wrote:
> He [Dumbledore] says "I have absolutely no intention of being sent 
to Azkaban. I could break out of course-- but what a waste of time, 
and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be 
doing".<

Juli replied:
>Maybe he is both an animagus and methamorphmagus, I mean he is DD, 
he's the man, the puppet-master of the WW, the most powerful wizard, 
so sure he could also be an unregistered animagus, just like the 
Marauders, but there's a third option: he is neither, he's just so
powerful he can escape the Dementors (wait, was this scene before or 
after the 5 DEs escaped and the dementors quitted?) without using a 
wand. But, if it was after the dementors left Azkaban, how easy would
it be for him to just leave.<

Kim now:
I really went for John's theory of animagus ability because I've been 
pushing for it too (like Patrick(?), et al.)  No doubt DD would be 
able to do many other things to aid his escape from Azkaban, but DD 
having animagus ability is just so obvious and beautiful an idea to 
me (and such an unexamined but likely aspect of DD's talent, so IMO 
JKR has been keeping it a secret up til now for some reason).

However, IIRC, the only time the animagus register was mentioned was 
when Hermione looked at it and didn't find the Marauders on it 
(though she did find McGonagall).  But she said she'd looked at the 
register only for the last 100 years, didn't she?  That may mean that 
DD is actually on the animagus register, but since he's 150 years 
old, he may be on the register from the *previous* century, and 
Hermione didn't look at that one!  

Regards, Kim