Re: significance in McGonagall’s years of service?

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 78708

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
 
> 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. 

you are correct... don't know how I came up with 1946!
              <snip>

> 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.

Which of course means she may know more than she's letting on.  She 
was obviously taught by Dumbledore, who must have considered her one 
of his best students for him to have hired her as his replacement.

Now that I think about it, there may be more significance between 
those who call LV "He Who Must Not be Named" as opposed to "You-Know 
Who."  Maybe it's time to see who is using the latter for LV - 
perhaps those people DO know who he was, and are undecided which name 
to use?  

It seems that Hagrid knows many things he should not, but not others 
he should.  If he knew that LV was Tom Riddle, I would think Minerva 
would too.  And maybe that's why she's so concerned about Harry at 
the beginning of SS/PS - she knows what happened to Tom Riddle who 
was raised in a similar environment.