DD as Animagus

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 182804

> bboyminn:
> 
> > If it is primarily a method of stealth and 
>  > concealment, then let us also consider that
>  > both Dumbledore and Voldemort had other, probably
>  > superior, methods available to them.
> 
> But it being a method of stealth and concealment would seem to me 
to 
> argue *for* DD being an animagus. His obsession with secrecy would 
> rather *compel* him to learn this art as well, no matter how many 
other 
> "superior" methods he already knew.

Magpie:
Not necessarily. It's an argument for why he should have considered 
it but as canon does not say he was (which by default means that he 
wasn't) it doesn't make an argument that he actually was. There's no 
guarantee one's animagus form is stealthy. James would have had a far 
easier time spying as himself even without his Invisibility cloak 
most of the time than turning into a large stag.

We've got a lot of information on Dumbledore and no hint that he's an 
animagus. Sure he could have been, just as he could have been Stubby 
Boardman or could have been a serial killer. It's something you can 
work in around the canon we have or create with the canon we have, 
but it's not there.

-m