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[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 172442

 
> >  > 49. Is Snape an animagus spider?
> > Unknown.
> Anne Squires:
> Snape is a bat animagus.  It's at the end of the Sacking of Severus
> Snape chapter.
>

colebiancardi:

Or is it?  I thought it was his animagus, but then McGonagall says:

"No, he is not dead," said McGonagall bitterly.  "Unlike Dumbledore,
he ws still carrying his want...and he seems to have learned a few
tricks from his master"
With a tingle of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike
shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall.

US ed, p 599

colebiancardi back again:

McGonagall is an animagus, so why would she state that Snape *learned*
a few tricks from his master, Voldemort?  

I think this was a different type of spell and that Snape is not an
animagus at all