TBAY: Evil! McGonagall Revisited (WAS: Who Will Betray the Order?

[bohcoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 84101

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erinellii" <erinellii at y...> 
wrote in post #83919:

>  A forlorn shout echoes across Theory Bay, "Elkins! Elkins! Are you 
> here? Elkins! They've forgotten EverSoEvil!McGonagall!" 
 


Bohcoo comments:
This completely intrigued me, so I went back and read Elkins's 
staggeringly insightful post #39470 and the threads it spawned. (And, 
hat-tip to Erin here, no slouch yourself!) Want a good case of the 
cold-chills-creeps? Go for a stroll down that memory lane. Whew.

Forgotten ESE McGonagall? Not anymore. 

Okay, so I'm convinced: Minerva is evil to the core. She is the 
spurned lover of Voldemort (or, as she was first to call him, Lord 
Thingy. . .):) and inside the bun she always wears is a single lock 
of his hair that she lovingly cut from his head when he still had 
hair instead of scales.

Unfortunately, poor Minerva has no idea the new form her precious 
Tommy has assumed in order to enjoy vertical motion again. Will she 
still pine for him when she sees him again? (And we thought we had it 
bad going to our high school reunions and being shocked at the 
stereotypical football captain still working at the local gas 
station or the homecoming queen in a snug-fitting size 22 dress.)

And another mystery: Why did she latch onto Hermoine to mentor? What 
would her darling Tom Riddle think of her selection of a student who 
is 100% Muggle? Why would McGonagall mentor such a student UNLESS

(insert organ music here. . .)

she was so hurt by Tom Riddle ditching her way back then that she 
rushed her loyalties over to Dumbledore in a fit of blind revenge -- 
and -- wants to hurt him back by taking a student who embodies 
everything he loathes and making her into the best witch Hogwarts has 
produced in a half-century.

(Sound familiar? Sound like McGonagall's promise to Harry, in front 
of Umbridge, to help him make Auror if it took the last breath she 
drew on this earth?)

It would explain why McGonagall decided to shower so much extra 
help and attention on Hermoine -- a theory I prefer to the only other 
possible reason ESE McGonagall would have latched on to Hermoine to 
mentor -- as a convert to her own personal ESE coven.

Just my thoughts,
Bohcoo