McGonagall a Muggle? (Was: Did I Miss Something?)

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 81352

> McGonagall : "'You'd think they'd be a bit more careful, but no -- 
> even the Muggles have noticed something's going on. It was on their 
> news.' She jerked her head back at the Dursleys' dark living-room 
> window. 'I heard it. Flocks of owls...shooting stars...Well, they're
> not completely stupid.'"
> 
> Wendy : Finally (and getting back to your original point), what if 
> McGonagall is herself Muggle-born? This comment would seem to argue 
> against that (can you imagine Hermione making a comment like 
> this?), 

Actually, yes. Remember what she said when she got her Prefect 
badge ? She said (paraphrase) that prefect was a concept her parents 
could understand. I remember I was shocked the first time I read it, 
especially by what it implied : that her parents couldn't understand 
the rest of her life. How so ?? Is it because she doesn't explain 
things to them, because they are not interested in knowing her 
wizarding life, or because she *thinks* they couldn't understand 
anyway ? Do you see how this last line of reasoning could lead, after 
a few decades of complete immersion in the WW, to the kind of 
comments McGonagall made about Muggles ? So I don't necessarily 
consider those comments as a proof that she's not Muggle-born.

Del