Nature of a Patronus / Snape's Patronus

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 153498

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kemper <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
>
> As I started typing this, I began wondering about Dumbledore's 
patronus, a phoenix, and wondering if he's an animagus.  Hermione 
only read who became legal animagus within the twentieth century.  
What if Dumbledore became one prior to the turn of the last 
century?  He's old enough. What would this mean?  Would he have the 
magical abilities of phoenix?  I would guess not based on his use of 
Fawkes to take him out of the Headmaster's Office when he's 
confronted about the DA.
> 

Tonks:
I am sure that DD is an animagus or some higher form of such. After 
all he is the greatest wizard of `modern' times, and the greatest 
that Harry will ever meet. And DD taught transfiguration.  As we can 
see from Snape, a gifted master of the subject is usually the one 
that teaches the subject. It would only follow that, of course, DD 
is an animagus. "I don't need an invisibility cloak to be 
invisible." The question is not `if', but what. 

It is not necessary for the animagus to be the same as the patronus. 
Give JKR's talent I am sure that she can come up with something else 
for DD. I don't think his patronus and animagus are the same.

Tonks_op