[HPforGrownups] Re: DD as Animagus

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 182810

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jerri/Dan Chase" <danjerri at ...>
> wrote:
>> I believe that DD was an Animagus, but I do not think we have been
>> told that either.
>
>
> zanooda:
> Anything is possible, of course, but I just refuse to believe that DD
> could do something as exciting as turning into an animal (or more
> likely a bird - JMO), but he was never shown doing it. It's just not
> fair :-)! Especially in a series of books where some characters being
> Animagi is often an important part of the plot.


Shelley:
I absolutely believe that DD "could have been" an Animagus, as already 
stated by others, he was brilliant enough to do so. The question in my mind 
is why would he "want to". We see Rita doing it to spy on people. We see the 
Marauders doing it to be with Remus, and for sneaking around. We are never 
told why McGonagall turns into a cat, other than possibly to demonstrate her 
talents in Transfiguration. It seems to me that it's not a matter of talent, 
but a matter of interest of learning, and where one spends their focus or 
energies of study. Dumbledore, if the record serves right, was busy studying 
the uses of Dragon's blood, and so if he was, turning into a dragon would 
have been a useful Animagus for collecting small samples of blood from live 
dragons, although we are never told "where" DD got the Dragon's blood that 
he was doing research on, or even if it needed to be fresh to be of use.