Dumbledore's animagus; invisibility

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115183



Kim R.: 
> 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.

Finwitch:

Well, I haven't seen anything either way, apart from the part of being
a transfiguration teacher, and a surname which happens to be an old
word for bumblebee to point suggest animagus-ability in particular.

Some have argued that his comment in PS/SS about not needing an
invisibility cloak to become invisible to suggest this, but as
Hogwarts library has whole *section* for invisibility (Harry was there
 after that Snake-incident at Duelling-Club, listening Hufflepuffs
converse about Harry *urging* the Snake! This in CoS) I find it
unlikely. He can make himself invisible one way or other - a spell, I
think.

Invisibility is going to come up sooner or later, I think.

There is a book called the Invisible Book of Invisibility (Shopkeeper
at POA complained about not being able to find them, but the
Monsterbook of Monsters was worse). Also, in GOF we find that Moody
has a magical eye that can see trough such tricks (an eye that seems
to me to be much like an eye at Borkin&Burkes). In OOP there are the
thestrals, beings that are invisible *unless* the spectator has "seen
death". I wonder what OTHER things of invisibility we shall be reading
 about.

And about that invisible book - is it in Braille, or is there some
sort of trick to reveal its secrets? (Imagine. Ron/Harry or
Neville/Luna reading an invisible book. Hermione, unable to see the
book, doesn't believe they're reading at all, but rather playing a
pantomime imitation of her or some other not so rational thing...)

Finwitch