DD as Animagus

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 182788

zanooda said:
>And if Wormtail was able do it without any side-effects, then
>so would have DD, no doubt. However, DD is not an Animagus.

I don't think we know if DD was an Animagus or not.  When, at the end 
of PoA, Hermonie told Sirius that Peter couldn't be Scabbers she says: 
(US hardback, page 351)

"We did Animagi in class with Professor McGonagall.  And I looked them 
up when I did my homework - the Ministry of Magic keeps tabs on 
witches and wizards who can become animals; there's a register showing 
what animal they become, and their markings and things . . . and I 
went and looked Professor McGonagal up on the register, and there have 
been only seven Animagi this century, and Pettigrew's name wasn't on 
the list -"

However, even assuming that if DD was an Animagus, he would be 
registered (and that if Hermonie had seen his name on the list she 
would have mentioned it), note the words "this century".  JKR has said 
things that place DD's age at well over 100 years old.  Therefore, if 
he had become an Animagus as a young wizard, and registered himself 
with the ministry, it would have been done in the previous century.

I believe that DD was an Animagus, but I do not think we have been 
told that either.  The issue is one of the open issues that seemed a 
perfect set up for a disclosure in one of the last two books, but the 
disclosure never came.

Jerri