[HPforGrownups] Character: Minerva McGonagall and PWD

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 6884

Description: Generally severe. Hair in a bun. Scottish accent, especially
prominent on the Jim Dale audiotapes. Wears square glasses (her feline form
retains these in the form of square markings around her eyes).

This is the same for Rita Skeeter (ie her glasses become part of her beatle 
markings) How does this happen? Has Minerva been wearing the same pair of 
glasses since childhood (as some one who wears glasses this seems unlikely to 
me) and anyway, who does she buy the glasses from - the optometrist? - seems 
unlikely and (while I'm on it) there don't seem to be other wizards/witches 
with disabilities/impediments/handicaps (insert your own term) Where are they? 
Can the whole 'not perfect' thing be fixed or are (gasp) "the deformed" hidden 
away? How deformed do you have to be to suffer this indignity (if that is what 
happens) What happens to the W/W with CP? Are they doomed *never* to get the 
right wand action? Or someone with Tourette's or, or , or What kind of effect 
would Idiot Savant-ism have on Magical ability? What would challenging 
behaviour look like (don't turn your sister into a slug!, give a whole new 
meaning to put down the fridge)

AND there certainly seems to be a few people around who could benefit from a 
good calm down (and maybe a shrink or two). Does St Mungo's help the walking 
wounded or do they wait until things get so bad - like longbottom's parents - 
and then they just shelter (I'm seeing the scene from Cassandra's D.S here) 
Maybe if Tom had had some good quality counseling (*so* hard to find) he would 
not have been driven on his unfortunate (for the rest of the world) path of 
evil and destruction.

Ok, I'm stopping now

storm

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Walton [SMTP:john at walton.to]
Sent:	Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:17 PM
To:	hpforgrownups at egroups.com
Subject:	[HPforGrownups] Character: Minerva McGonagall

John Walton     john at walton.to

When I am an Evil Overlord...#220
Whatever my one vulnerability is, I will pretend to have a different one.
For example, I shall have all mirrors removed from the palace, scream and
flinch whenever someone accidentally holds up a mirror, etc. In the climax
when the hero whips out a mirror and thrusts it at my face, my reaction will
be "Hmm...I think I need a shave."
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