Dumbledore

[cunning_spirit]

No: HPFGUIDX 116489


> Dungrollin wrote:  
> 
> >More amusingly, it's also an old name for dor beetles, which are big 
>  shiny black dung beetles (try 'Geotrupes' in google images). I got 
> *terribly* excited when I first read PS, thinking 'Hooray! The 
> Headmaster's a dung beetle!' But then JKR said in an interview that 
> he was named that because it's a word for bumble bee, and I felt like 
> a punctured lilo... Oh well.     [signed] Dungrollin<<
> 
> Kim again:  Very interesting.  Now that would be one way to keep 
> people away from him and thus from discovering who he really is, not 
> to mention possibly keeping Crookshanks from eating him -- 
> Dumbledore's a dung beetle!  Also, I guess that's the key to your 
> HP4GU nome de plume??  What an interesting crowd on this list --
> entomologists and everything!
> 
> Kim

cunning spirit now:

Ah, but remember that there are TWO Dumbledores in the HP universe: Albus and 
Aberforth.  Maybe noble Albus is the bumblebee animagus while Aberforth is the dung 
beetle. One gets the impression that the two brothers have split the moral/amoral 
spectrum between them (note: amoral does NOT equal evil -- Aberforth appears to be a 
bloke more in the mold of Mundungus Fletcher, than outright evil like Lucius Malfoy).  
Anyway, since I believe that JKR once said in an interview with regards to the beastly 
manifestations of animagi, that the beast form was a reflection of the mage's inner nature, 
I'd have a hard time going along with the idea that JKR's "epitome of goodness" was a 
dung beetle animagus.