[HPforGrownups] Re: Missing 24 Hours

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58403

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> Kelly Grosskreutz <ivanova at idcnet.com> wrote:
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> One thought I had last night on this before falling asleep that does touch
> on this.  I was thinking about McGonagall in general, and ended up
thinking
> about that fateful Halloween night.  What does McGonagall do the whole
next
> day?  Sit at the Dursleys house and watch them.  Yes, we find out that
she's
> been waiting for Dumbledore to show up, but what if that's not the full
> reason she was sent there?  What if DD was afraid one of the DE's would
try
> to take out the Dursleys (in particular, Petunia), and sent McGonagall
there
> to make sure they were safe?  She might not have even been aware of this
> portion of her assignment, but I am sure that she would have acted if
> someone had tried to hurt them.  I also notice that she had no problems
with
> Vernon going to work, but stayed with Petunia the whole day.   Then again,
> there were plenty of other wizards around Vernon's workplace.  Perhaps one
> of them was there to make sure nothing untoward happened to him as well.

> Becky:  Two problems. First- She was pretty disgusted with the Dursleys
and tried to talk Dumbledore out of leaving Harry there.  She didn't seem to
be part of any plan and didn't know what Dumbledore was doing really.
Second-When Dumbledore saw her waiting there he chuckled to himself "I might
have known."  In other words he certainly didn't expect her presence there
so her being there was not part of any plan of his.  In fact, I'm not sure
that McDougall is part of the anti-Voldemort group at all. She seems left
out of anything important.  Huggs Becky

As for the first part, I agree in that she didn't know she was there to
protect Petunia.  I still say she could've been sent there ostensibly to
wait for him, not knowing the second part of her mission, since she does not
seem to be part of the "old crowd."  I also agree she had no idea why
Dumbledore wanted her there anyway.  Being smart, maybe she figured he would
want to know something about the people that lived there, and since she was
told to meet him there, she watched Petunia and Dudley all day.  As to the
second, I did read it as him being surprised slightly to see her there, but
it could also be in reference to her being there as a cat instead of as a
human.  He should've known she'd spend the day as a cat.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova