Dumbledore & Registered Animagus was Re: Dumbledore and Transfiguration

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No: HPFGUIDX 130956

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at g...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker"
> <karenabarker at y...> wrote:
> > Julie wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > I don't think he is a registered animagus or Hermione would
> probably
> > > have mentioned it (speculation)
> >
> > Karen
> >
> > I have a theory on this and it is that Hermione said she looked 
it
> up
> > in the library and there had only been x (sorry not got book to
> hand)
> > number if animagi registered this centuary. Dumbledore, however,
> is
> > about 150 years old so I think that he was registered *last*
> centuary
> > so Hermione didn't see him in her book.
> >
> > Karen
> 
> Snow:
> 
> So, who were the other possible, I think seven, registered 
animagus?
> I've heard all types of theories on who could be an animagus but 
we 
> know that McGonagall is one of; I think eight, registered animagus 
> this century, then who are the other seven? 
> Has anyone thought about whom these registered, with the Ministry, 
> animagus are? Could they possibly be important, or is it just a 
throw 
> away line? I truthfully never thought about this myself and just 
> wandered since the subject came up if anyone else thought about 
whom 
> they might be (remember they are from the last century)?

Come to think of it, we have learned a lot more about unregistered 
animagi than registered ones.  I wonder if this info will come in 
handy in the war?  It is possible that one or more may be death 
eaters.  Or, could some DEs also be unregistered animagi?  
Considering how Rita Skeeter got around undetected and got so much 
information, imagine how much damage a DE could do.