Riddle and McGonagall (was: re: bathrooms - WOLVES - VOLDEMORT - MQACGONAGALL

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No: HPFGUIDX 39632

Catlady de los Angeles:
> Eloise wrote:
> 
> >  Now I don't think that McGonagall can have been (or at least,
> > she'd have been at the top of the school when Riddle started)
> 
> October 16, 2000 is the date (according to The Goat Pen -- and I 
> *will* check your links, Mike, when I get a chance) of the Scholastic 
> on-line chat in which she said that MacGonagall is 'a sprightly 70'. 
> I brood about whether she meant 'is' in 2000, when the interview was 
> given, in GoF (1994-5 school year), or in Book 1 (1991-2 school year). 
> 
> To me, if MacGonagall was 70 in GoF, she would have been around two 
> years ahead of TMR, not six years ahead. And if she was 70 in 2000, 
> she would have been at the bottom of the school when TMR was at the 
> top. I would like to finagle my numbers so that she was in the SAME 
> year...
> 

I was taking my information from the Lexicon, according to which McGonagall 
was born in 1920 and Tom Riddle in 1927.

Eloise


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