[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Minerva McGonagall Is Ever So Evil!

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No: HPFGUIDX 39879

Mysteryreefer:

> OK, I read all the posts regarding Evil Minerva and I have 2 
> questions-- if she is indeed so powerful, why couldn't she 
> conjure up a patronus to ward off the dementor from Barty Jr.? 
> However, if she is just a plant for Voldemort, why did she try to 
> hard to get Hermione a Time Turner in PoA? Unless that was 
> actually Dumbledore's idea.... 

Welcome. Two good questions.

I think the theory goes that she didn't ward off the Dementor for the very 
reason that Crouch Jr. was liable to reveal her Evilness. One of the things 
about Ever-So-Evil characters is that they are just that and tend to care 
about their own welfare above all else. They are not always co-operating in 
their Ever-So-Evilness. This is also, as it happens compatible with the 
objection that she appears in Crouch/Moody's Foe Glass. She would, wouldn't 
she? She's about to let the Dementors get him.

Crouch's Kissing is also held to be convenient for Evil! Bagman, Evil!Fudge 
and Evil!Snape.

As for the TT. Well, I'm glad you raised that, as it is actually further 
indication of her Ever-So-Evilness. Who is the student most likely to put two 
and two together? Who sussed out Lupin was a werewolf? Hermione, of course.
Well, old Minerva's *delighted* that Hermione wants an impossible timetable. 
What could be better? Let her do it and not only will she more than fully 
occupied during the school week, but she will have to spend *all* her free 
time an homework and be far too tired to interfere or work out that here 
revered Head of House has a secret agenda of her own.

Eloise



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