Did I Miss Something? (McGonagall)

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 81209


> Pip wrote:
> >  she [McGonagall]may 
> > have been in her final year at Hogwarts when the previous 
> > attacks happened.

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> Golly:
> She couldn't have been there.  She's only been there for 16 years 
> as per OOTP, I believe.
> 
Pip!Squeak replies:

McGonagall has been teaching at Hogwarts for '39 years this 
December' [OOP, Ch. 15 p.287]. Before that, she probably went to the 
school as a student; while there's no canon evidence *where* she 
went to school, the oft repeated statement that Hogwarts is the only 
wizarding school for Britain and Ireland makes it likely she was at 
school at Hogwarts.

If she's 70 in GoF, she'd be 68 in CoS, and the first Riddle opening 
of the Chamber of Secrets would have taken place when she was 18, 
and doing her NEWTS.

Incidentally, the female teacher who's been at Hogwarts for 16 years 
is Trelawney. ;-)

Pip!Squeak