37. Animagus
Dumbledore soon proposed that Minerva should study to be an animagus.
“It will be a lot of hard work but I’m sure that you’ll succeed eventually.”
After a few lessons it was clear that she could become one. Every night she would just fall asleep instantly. The part that she soon found the hardest was the tail (because most humans don’t have one) and she would only become half a cat on nights she was feeling particularly tired.
Finally she succeeded in transforming completely into a tabby cat with strange markings around its eyes. She now just needed to register.