Could be OoP - Best "YES!" Moments

Jeanne jestahijinx at hotmail.com
Sat Jul 5 20:14:41 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 67633

> For best yes moment how could you have missed
> 
> Umbridge : "I was just wondering, professor, whether you had 
> recieved my note telling you of the date and time of your inspec - "
> McG : "Obviously I recieved it, or I would have asked you what you 
> are doing in my classroom,"
> Umbridge : "hem, hem"
> McG : "I wonder, how you expect to gain an idea of my usual 
teaching 
> methods if you continue to interrupt me?  You see, I do not 
> generally PERMIT people to talk when I am talking." (emphisis mine)
> 
Omigod, yes...this was a completely brilliant moment.  Another good 
one for film, too.  :-)  I think that McGonagall is one of the best 
masters of the gentle art of verbal self-defense around.

She's also an excellent teacher, so there's very little Umbridge 
could come up with to truly complain about - not that she was really 
looking for facts.  :-/  But this got the point across soooooo well.

Felinia
one of McGonagall's biggest fans
and also a Maggie Smith fan, so the casting's perfect AFAIC





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