McGonnigal Played Quidditch

[Marci]

Kathryn Wolber <katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- werebearloony <Erthena at a...> wrote:
> > I'm probably not the first person to point this out
> > but I found it 
> > cool all the same.  While watching SS yesterday I
> > was trying to find 
> > out what year James's part said (1979) when I caught
> > a glimpse of 
> > somthing else.  Another part of the trophy said "M.
> > ?.(sorry I didn't 
> > write it down) McGonnigal"  The year undernieth
> > wasn't too readable, 
> > but the quesrtion remains, did McGonnigal play
> > quidditch? It would 
> > explain a lot, like how sheknew Harry would be a
> > good seeker, her 
> > sprightlyness, even why people pair her with Madame
> > Hooch.
> 
> Well, even if she did, the movie isn't proof enough.
> That plaque in the trophy room has the wrong position
> for James, as JKR said that he was a Chaser and not a
> Seeker. Also, not to totally bring mainlist stuff
> here, she has never officially said that James was in
> Gryffindor(though I think he was).  They may have just
> used her name because it's one they knew and it's
> likely that she was in Gryffindor. But once again, I
> wouldn't take that as proof of anything seeing as that
> scene doesn't even happen in the book. In the book
> McGonagall says "You're father would have been proud.
> He was an excellent Quidditch player
> himself."(SS-152US PB) No mention of postion or House.
>  
> ~Kathryn

Just to add:

Plus, the plaque in the movie said "T.C. McGonagall".  I believe the 
year was c. 1971-2.

Marci (who has not watched the HP movies lately because I've been in 
LOTR mode)