[HPforGrownups] McGonagall's Disloyalty

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No: HPFGUIDX 30281

In a message dated 11/27/2001 8:31:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
feycat at feycat.net writes:


> WHY was McGonagall there? She is asking Dumbledore if it's true that V is 
> gone and the Potters are dead. So, she's way out of the loop, right? So WHY 
> is she at the Dursleys looking at them to see what type of people they are? 
> As far she she knows, the baby would go to Sirius Black, right? No one 
> knows (per PoA) that Sirius is "the traitor" yet. Except possibly 
> Dumbledore, which is why he tells Hagrid to bring the baby to him at the 
> Dursleys and not give him to Sirius. So how does McGonagall know that 
> Sirius isn't getting the baby and the Dursleys are if she's so out of the 
> loop?
> 
> Curiouser and curiouser...

personally i think that JKR hadn't decided what she was going to do and 
wanted to introduce characters with a bang and the transfiguration thing is 
great (obviously so that the movie had to do it more than it's done in the 
book) and I'm sure Dumbledore would of recognized her since in PoA they say 
that there's a data base on all animage and what markings they have, etc....i 
just put it on JKR not being sure how she wanted everything to go. Plus 
McGonagall has shown the most compassion to Harry besides Dumbledore (forgive 
me if i'm missing something i've yet to read GoF) And hadn't people already 
been celebrating, etc since early in the day when Dursley went to work which 
would of been around 9 and that's when she arrived at their house because he 
sees her heading over so maybe she had some idea what would happen.....well 
that's just my opinion and only my 4th post so! i'm sorry if i'm out of line 
or anything just trying to get in the swing of things since i jsut started 
reading the books 1 week ago!

-step


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