Re: significance in McGonagall’s years of service?

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No: HPFGUIDX 78761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> 
> > Melinda wrote:
> >  
> > >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.
> > 

Just wanted to mention that this seems to have been an important time
for both Dumbledore and the WW.  When Harry gets a Dumbledore card
inside his Chocolate Frog box on the train to Hogwarts in the first
book, it reads:

"Albus Dumbledore, Currently Headmaster of Hogwarts.  Considered by
many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly
famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the
discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on
alchemy with his partner, Nicholas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys
chamber music and tenpn bowling."

The significance about the part about Nicholas Flamel became evident
later in the book, but here, at Book 5, the part about Grindelwald
seems to take on new significance.  Who was Grindelwald, and what
happened during the years of 1945/1946 that brought Dumbledore and
McGonagall to their current positions at Hogwarts?

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