Minerva McGonagall is Ever So Evil

[errolowl]

No: HPFGUIDX 39609


Pip wrote:
> Having been looking through CoS, a couple of pointers occurred to 
>me.
> Why did Dumbledore sent *Snape* out to look for Harry and Ron? Why 
> not McGonagall, their head of House? Surely someone else could 
>have taken care of the Sorting for her when two of her own students 
>were missing?


Whoohoo. <Errol nods and hoots in agreement>

Consider this scene just after Harry & Ron arrive by Ford Anglia, 
& Snape goes to get McGonagall:

    >>Harry had seen Professor McGonagall angry on several 
occasions, but either he had forgotten just how thin her mouth could 
go, or he had never seen her this angry before. She raised her wand 
the moment she entered; Harry and Ron both flinched, but she merely 
pointed it at the empty fireplace, where flames suddenly erupted<<
(CS 5)

What's this? Harry and Ron actually think she's going to use her 
wand *on them*? Hit them with a curse or turn them into slugs? What 
kind of person do they think she *is* anyway? Do they subconsciously 
detect her malevolence? They have never been so jumpy in 
Dumbledore's presence, even in a similar I'll-have-to-expel-you 
situation – and Dumbledore certainly has greater authority to do so.


Ummm, if only I didn't keep finding so many instances where she is 
angry. And here we thought Snape was angst ridden! 


Errol, who'd like to root for Redeemable Evil! McGonagall. 
(Lets say she started out with malevolent zeal, but now every time 
her mouth twitches in a would-be-smile, she gets to like that kid 
Potter a little more. She sells out Dumbledore but can't quite see 
Potter killed. Just maybe, she'll turn out on the right side after 
all is said and done! ;-)