Minerva and Marvelo

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No: HPFGUIDX 36671

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "nyarth_meow" <rshuson80 at y...> wrote:
> 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.

Fixed? She didn't stop gathering years.
Say - she's 65 when Harry first meets her
and 70 in the END of the fourth book. Her birthday being in June...

> *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?

Yes - I think she was in Hogwarts with Tom Marvolo Riddle. Dumbledore 
tought her how to be animagus, I think, during her third year. She 
might have been the one who found Myrtle...
We know how SHE died - what of the other ghosts? I'm *Very* 
interested on Bloody Baron (supposedly any ghost could do *something* 
to control Peeves, but only Bloody Baron ever *does*)