[HPforGrownups] Re: McGonagall

Kathleen Kelly MacMillan kathleen at carr.org
Sun Sep 10 05:30:37 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 1253

>When Dumbledore arrives in Privet Drive to deliver baby Harry to the
>Dursleys he finds McGonagall, as a cat, sitting outside their house.  Yet,
>when he reveals that he is there to deliver Harry Potter to No. 4, she seems
>outraged that he would be leaving him with the Dursleys and says: "I've been
>watching them all day".  Why was she watching the Dursleys' house if she had
>no inkling that they were Harry's relatives?  If she planned to intercept
>Dumbledore to find out if the Potters were dead, she must have known that he
>was going to be at Privet Drive.

MM herself says that Hagrid told her Dumbledore would be coming to the 
Dursley's house.  I assumed that was why she was watching them, even if she 
didn't know they were Harry's relatives.

Kathy





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