[HPforGrownups] Re: Is McGonagall scruffy?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 8635

Trina wrote:

> I ran to my books to see if there was a full description of Minerva
> in cat form and came across the following:
>
> "He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had gone.  Instead he was
> smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square
> glasses exactly the shapeof the markings the cat had had around its
> eyes.  She, to, was wearing a cloak, an emerald one.  her black hair
> ws drawn into a tight bun.  She looked distinctly ruffled."

But this is not a description of McGonagall in cat form. It's a
description of her human form. And "ruffled" in this context means
"flustered" or something like it, rather than "physically mussed up."

--Amanda