[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Minerva McGonagall Is Ever So Evil!/ 13 at dinner

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No: HPFGUIDX 39588

Errol swoops in:

> But another of the parchments Porphyria has left catches Eloise's 
> eye:
> 
> > Arcum mentions the Christmas dinner in GoF. This reminds Eloise of 
> all those 
> > conversations about Stoned!Harry. 
> > Trelawney makes a fuss about which of Harry and Ron leaves the 
> table first. 
> > What is Dumbledore's response (remember that we have made much of 
> > decapitation imagery)? That it doesn't matter, unless she thinks 
> there is a 
> > mad *axeman* in the entrance hall.
> > A small thing, but one that Eloise has been waiting for a suitable 
> > opportunity to point out.
> 
> 
> Eloise, Eloise! Dumbledore doesn't say a word there! It's 
> *McGonagall* who does all the talking on the subject - Evil!
> McGonagall who would be delighted if McNair did his bit on 
> 

Aargh.....you're right.
Misremembered that one, all right. And I'm furious, because there I was, 
scraping the barrell for Evil!McGonagall canon and I had a nice one stashed 
away there already.
Just goes to show  her evil cunning, disguising it from me, that's what I 
say. Perhaps she knows we're on to her!

>McGonagall, McNair...umm, from the same community? (its a 
>Stretch of course! ;-)

Mmm. They're both presumably Scots, but I don't think I'd like to go any 
further than that, especially not given the slight national rivalries that 
tend to rear their ugly heads at times such as this.

Eloise
Confunded, as ever. (And still waving an England flag)



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