[HPforGrownups] Muggle Mail/McConagal Knowing

[Shannon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32683

At 02:58 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, Lily wrote:

>midwife34 at aol.com writes:
>> The second time she arrived, I suppose she heard all the
>> screaming from the fat lady as she was attacked by Sirius after he
>> awakened Ron.Of course she didn't start off by saying, " ok , who
>> vandalized the portrait? " when she entered the common room
>
>That's a very good theory! But he would have slashed the portrait to gain
>entrance to the hall BEFORE awakening Ron, right? And if so, that would have
>given McConagal even more time to hear the fat lady and then dash into the
>hall as Ron screamed.
>

Ok, hang on.  Sirius slashes the portrait on a different night than when he
wakes Ron. He slashes the portrait because he's angry that the fat lady
won't let him in.  They are all coming up to the dormitory and the crowd is
all hanging around outside because the fat lady has disappeared.  Peeves
tells Dumbledore it was Sirius Black.  When Sirius wakes Ron, *that* is
when Sir Cadogan is in the portrait...he lets him in because Crookshanks
stole Neville's password list. 

As for how Professor McGonagall knows what's going on, I suspect she has
her rooms fairly close to the Gryffindor dorms since she is, after all, the
head of Gryffindor.  More than likely she simply heard the racket they were
all making. She couldn't possibly be hanging around in her cat form since
they all know what she looks like, and way too much plotting goes on in
that common room for them to know she's likely to stroll through, silent as
a cat, at any moment. :) 

Shannon