Minerva and Marvelo

[nyarth_meow]

No: HPFGUIDX 36646

I was wondering the other day if Minerva McGonagall was a contempory 
of Tom Riddle's at Hogwarts, and whether this might be relevant.  
I've heard JKR put her age at both "a spritely 70" and "65", which 
suggests maybe not, as the author herself doesn't consider M's age 
important enough to even be fixed.
*However*  Assuming McGonagall is around 65, and the chamber of 
secrets was opened about 50 years ago when Tom Riddle was 15...  They 
would have been at Hogwarts at the same time, even if not in the same 
year.   Maybe Minerva has a more important role than we might imagine 
in future books?

Nyarth