Re: significance in McGonagall’s years of service?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 78650

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melinda" <meltowne at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Let's look at ages - McG started teaching in 1946 (it is 1995 in 
> OoP, she's been there 39 years)

I want McG to have started teaching in 1946, right after the defeat 
of Grindelwald, but when I count on my fingers, 1995 minus 39 
years keeps coming out 1956 (19*5*6) rather than 1946. 

> If she's in her 70's, then she was in her 30's when she started
> teaching at Hogwarts. (snip) It looks like [Riddle] was not taught 
> by McG at all, as she arrived just after he graduated.

Riddle was not taught by McG at all, as she started teaching ten 
years after he finished school.

> Since she was in her 30's she was also not there as a student with 
> him.

Being in her 30s in 1956 makes her in her 20s in 1946, and 16 in 1942 
-- she may have been in the SAME YEAR as Riddle.