[HPforGrownups] Re: Application of lessons

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 45079

At 15:27 07/10/02 -0400, Bernadette M. Crumb wrote:

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>Er, my daughter currently has a death grip on HPPS so I can't
>look it up verbatim, but when Harry and Ron were late for
>Transfiguration class, wasn't McGonagall in cat form on the desk
>when they came in?  And she transformed back into human form in
>front of the class.  It happened within the first couple of weeks
>of school because Harry and Ron were still getting lost trying to
>find their way around.  She suggested turning them into a watch
>and a map.

That entire sequence is from the Movie That Should Not be Named and does 
not appear in PS/SS the Book. In the Book, during the first lesson 
McGonagall changes her desk into a pig and back again; in PoA she is 
dismayed that her Animagus display is considered an anticlimax (the class 
is perturbed by the Devination lesson they just had, during which Harry's 
death was predicted).

This list uses canon, i.e. the books, as it source for discussions, not 
apocryphal sources tainted by the imaginings of Messrs Kloves and Columbus. :-)

 > That, I believe is the animagus changed that Barb is referring to above, 
not the
 > change at 4 Privet Drive the night they dropped Harry off with the Dursleys.

Err... that scene was never raised as an issue in this thread...