[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore the General

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 124339

phoenixgod2000 suggests:

>He didn't use Sirius, a skilled animagus, to do anything for the
>order. Even if Sirius had to stay in #12, wouldn't a teacher skilled
>enough to teach Wormtail of all people, be good enough to teach
>Molly the she-bear how to become a she-bear in truth? Or to teach
>Tonks to become a tiny and stealthy chameleon? Or to teach Kingsley
>how to become the king of all cats, a lion? Wouldn't being animagi
>make every order member that much more valuable?  Sirius was a
>wasted resource. He would never have gone stir crazy if he had some
>teachin' to do. Or anything else to do for that matter.

I think this would have been a brilliant idea, except for the fact that 
learning to be an animagus apparently takes years of study, especially if 
you're doing it part-time as all of the people suggested would be.  (Tonks 
and Kingsley have full-time jobs at the Ministry; Molly has a full-time job 
feeding the Order and making their headquarters habitable.)  So it wouldn't 
have been very useful except perhaps as a long-term project.


Janet Anderson
(trying to catch up)