Did I Miss Something?

[redwoman06]

No: HPFGUIDX 81211


Susan wrote:
> > I am reading COS (my new UK edition) and something doesn't make 
sense to me.  <Snip>  When Harry is in the hospital ward having his 
bones regrown [Ch. 10]and they bring Colin Creevey in, McGonagall 
gets Madam Pomfrey.  When Pomfrey asks what happened, Dumbledore says 
that Minerva found him on the stairs.  A few lines down, McGonagall 
says that she shudders to think...if Albus hadn't been on the way 
downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have....
> > 
> > Ok what did I miss?  If McGonagall found him, what does that 
have to do with Albus getting hot chocolate? <Snip> >>>


Pip!Squeak:
> It may be as simple as Professor McGonagall thinking that whatever 
> had just petrified Colin was going to come back and finish Colin 
> off. <snip>
> However, it might tie in with Minerva McGonagall being a perfectly 
> normal Scottish muggle name when Professor McGonagall was born, 
> and the fact that she wears a muggle coat and dress in OOP.
<snip> 
> So, she *may* have said 'if Albus hadn't been on his way down, the 
> muggle born teacher who'd found him might have been the next victim.
> 
> And she might have been found dead. >>>

That's a great theory but I doesn't explain why Dumbledore said that 
McGonagall found him and then a second later McGonagall saying that 
Dumbledore was downstairs with her?
  Why were they together? It is a bit odd, Hogwarts is a big school, 
and the likelihood of two people meeting up in the same stairs, in 
the middle of the night, with a petrified boy is not very great.
   Were they together? Also, is McGonagall the only one that calls 
Dumbledore by his first name? 

redwoman06