Dumbledore's animagus; time travel

[kim reynolds]

No: HPFGUIDX 115004


Hi all!  I've been reading many of the interesting posts lately but haven't had time to join in the fray.  I don't know if this question has come up before.  Has anyone found in canon, JKR website, etc., any reference to whether DD has ever transformed himself into anyone or anything else?  It occurred to me that he's likely to have animagus abilities since he's a former transfiguration teacher (e.g. we all know that current transfig. teacher McGonagall can transform herself into a cat).  But I've read all the books at least once and think I would remember that particular detail about DD.  JKR has said that his patronus is a phoenix, so that got me wondering about his animagus. Seems like an obvious and odd bit of info. To leave out about a major character like DD, and a former transfiguration teacher at that.  Just wondering too if such a detail about DD might become relevant to the story later.  
 
FWIW I was also wondering lately about DD's and McG.'s apparent expertise with time travel as evidenced in PoA.   A time turner seems like a potentially powerful and versatile tool to use for the side of good in the dark days ahead.  Of course it would need to stay out of evil hands... which makes me wonder what happened to all the time turners that got loose (didn't they?) from their case during the MoM battles in OotP... is there a time turner factory somewhere cranking them out...? (Someone please let me know if they remember that scene better than me -- I don't have the book at hand).   
 
Regards, 
Kim R. (who is clearly full of wonder from thinking about animagi and time travel)