OotP: Sneaks and Spies

[redwoman06]

No: HPFGUIDX 64929

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Richard Thorp <obby at b...> 
wrote:
> Message: 21
>    Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:22:37 -0700
>    From: "Wendy St John" <hebrideanblack at e...>
> Subject: RE: OotP: Sneaks and Spies
> 
> > The one about whom I'm wondering is McGonagall - she's not 
mentioned as?
> > being in the photo. Later, Harry and Co. certainly consider her 
to be a
> > member of the Order, but is there actually any reference the 
book that
> > states she is? In previous books, I found her absence at key 
moments as
> > being rather conspicuous (for example, when Dumbledore sends her 
on a task
> > before Sirius reveals himself). Is she actually a member of the 
Order, or
> > are we just assuming she is because of her brilliant defiance of 
Umbridge?
> > I've only read the book through once, so I'll be looking for 
this on my
> > second go, unless someone else can remember specifically a place 
where
> > Dumbledore acknowledges her as an actual member of the Order.
> 
> I think McGonnagall not being in the Order is for the protection of
> the school - she is the strongest teacher there after DD, and if DD
> was to be removed (by the MoM or whoever), then it'd be sensible to
> have a good, strong candidate to take over from him. All in all 
this
> was a bit of a bad plan as Umbrage turned up and usurped it all


I think McGonagall might be secretly in the Order, although the 
order is a secret organization. For her to have known where the 
headquarters was Dumbledore himself would have had to tell her. I 
think it was said they had seen about twenty people at the 
headquarters, but they beleived that there was a lot more that 
participated. Also just becuase she wasn't in the picture doesn't 
mean she wasn't in the original Order. 

I think that she knows about Sirius, wouldn't she find it strange 
that they were using his own house. 

McGonagall also said that she remembered when Dumbledore offered to 
be Lilly and James's secret keeper. How would she had known this 
information if she wans't in the Order.

Also she was with Dumbledore when they brought Harry to the 
Dursleys. We know deffinately that Hagrid and Dumbledore are in the 
Order, why ask McGonagall to come if she wasn't involved with 
Voldemorte. The Order was those that fought Voldemorte last time. 


Harry telling Hermione "Hermione, it doesn't matter if he's done it 
to get me there or not- they've taken McGonagall to ST. Mungo's, 
there isn't ianyone left fromt he Order at Hogwarts..."


                                                  Anastatia