Re: significance in McGonagall’s years of service?

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 78637

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" <dequardo at w...> wrote:

Arya:

> I think the importance of McG's era, is the fact that she was 
placed at 'a 
> sprightly 70ish' in a chat by JKR and we know CoS is 50 years after 
Riddle 
> was at Hogwarts--this makes McG and Riddle comtemporaries and very 
likely 
> to have been at Hogwarts for at some of the same years.  
> 
> It also means that McG, the current transfiguration teacher (and 
known 
> animagus) was more than likely taught transfiguration by Dumbledore 
(who 
> we know to have been Riddle's transfig teacher).  

Me:

Let's look at ages - McG started teaching in 1946 (it is 1995 in OoP, 
she's been there 39 years).  If she's in her 70's, then she was in 
her 30's when she started teaching at Hogwarts.

LV was in his 5th year about 50 years before Harry was in his 2nd 
year, or about 1942/43.  This means he graduated around 1945 - the 
same year Grindewald was defeated by Dumbledore.  This also means he 
stepped right into the void left by Grindewald's defeat - how 
convenient.  It looks like he was not taught by McG at all, as she 
arrived just after he graduated.  Since she was in her 30's she was 
also not there as a student with him.  I think her presence at 
Hogwarts for 39 years is a clue that Dumbledore was no longer 
Transfiguration teacher in 1946 because he became headmaster - and 
there must be some importance to that.

Melinda