DD as Animagus

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 182796

> Jerri:
> > I believe that DD was an Animagus
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> > During the course of the OWLs in book 5 a wasp is noted 
>  > as flying around in the examination room for no particular
>  > reason.

Potioncat:
We've had such great fun looking for clues and foreshadowings, that 
sometimes we've missed simple moments for what they were.

I think Harry was a boy, like many boys, who was distracted from a 
task by a buzzing insect. Most of also missed the sad moment when 
Alice gave gum wrappers to Neville. It was a mother with dementia 
givng a gift to her son, and not a mother trying to send a coded 
messge.


> CJ
> It would certainly seem odd that neither DD nor Riddle -- the two 
> greatest wizards of modern times  -- appear to have mastered 
animagism. 
>   With animagism being otherwise so important to the plotline, this 
> couldn't have been an accidental oversight. Has JKR ever been asked 
> about this?

Potioncat:
But that would be like saying we're surprised that a brain surgeon 
wasn't also a heart surgeon. It's a choice somewhere along the line, 
of what you want to do. I'm sure either of them could have become an 
Animagus, but both of them were studying other types of magic.

Besides, Riddle probably knew he'd be something that crawls under a 
rock, and didn't want to bother.


> CJ
> As a corollary, I've missed it somewhere, but why can witches only 
> transform into a single animal? Has there never been one who has 
> mastered multiple forms?


Potioncat:
I can't remember if JKR has directly said one and only one, but she 
has said you can't control what animal you become. Her wording has 
always made me think there is only one.