DD/MM canon? (was Re: Dumbledore/Hermes + Minerva)

[caesian]

No: HPFGUIDX 96983

> Paula Gaon wrote:
> 
> "MINERVA , the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter . She 
> was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, and in complete 
> armour. She was also a warlike divinity; but it was defensive war 
> only that she patronized. "
> 
> IMHO, this description really rings true of our Minerva. <I snipped rest of excellent 
post>
 
> vmonte responded:
> Nice post! <I snipped predictions for 6 & 7>  (Maybe DD and MM are 
> married?!)

Sorry to jump in late, but this little scene in CoS has always struck me as intriguing.  I'll 
repeat it here because the wording is just so.

"Next moment, Dumbledore was backing into the dormitory, wearing a long woolly 
dressing gown and a nightcap.  He was carrying one end of what looked like a statue.  
Professor McGonagall appeared a second later, carrying its feet.  Together, they heaved it 
onto a bed.
'Get Madam Pomfrey,' whispered Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall hurried past the 
end of Harry's bed out of sight. ....

after Madam Pomfrey is summoned:

"What happened?' Madam Pomfrey whispered to Dumbledore, bending over the statue on 
the bed.
'Another attack,' said Dumbledore. 'Minerva found him on the stairs.'
'There was a bunch of grapes next to him,' said Professor McGonagall. 'We think he was 
trying to sneak up here to visit Potter.'

.... later in the same scene

'Petrified?' whispered Madam Pomfrey.
'Yes,' said Professor McGonagall. 'But I shudder to think ... If Albus hadn't been on the way 
downstairs for hot chocolate, who knows what might have ...'


OK.  This is my point.  Who did find Colin?  Was is McGonagall as Dumbledore states 
plainly, or was it Dumbledore as McGonagall later implies?  *Wait a moment*, I hear you 
say - maybe McGonagall is just relieved that Albus stumbled by right after she had found 
Colin so that he could protect the both of them.  I mean, she's formidable, but he's the 
undisputed greatest.  So, that could be it.

But, if not, why else might their stories be so vague or mis-match?  Were they walking the 
moonlit halls of Hogwarts together?  "Who knows what might have ..."  Sorry.  It's a tiny 
shred, I know.  Although, others have speculated on the spinsterhood of our senior staff 
more humorously than I (post # 27, is hilarious, and explains the 'glint of triumph').

As for the scene on the wall of Privet Drive, of late I have noticed many posts pointing out 
the apparent lack of information McGonagall had before Albus arrived.  However, that's 
*not* actually clear in the book.  I didn't want to nit-pick, but to be clear:

"It seemed that Professor McGonagall had reached the point she was most anxious to 
discuss, the real reason she had been waiting on a cold hard wall all day, for neither as a 
cat nor as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now.  
It was plain the whatever 'everyone' was saying, she was not going to believe it until 
Dumbledore told her it was true.

She had information from Hagrid perhaps, and perhaps others, but she wanted to know 
what Dumbledore thought.  Smart lady.  This is the only scene in the books where we see 
them together without someone else present, and they are quite formal.  But then, that 
scene took place 10 years before Harry began at Hogwarts, and at the end of 14 years of 
deadly struggle, so maybe they lightened up a bit in the meantime.

I don't want to be a shipper here, but do sometimes wonder about the married staff that 
JKR suggests.  These two just seem a possible choice, but maybe I'm weird.  

Caesia 
- who thinks that at least McG/DD is better than my Severus-Snape-is-the-love-child-of-
Hogwarts-sweethearts-Minerva-and-Tom-Riddle plot which I swear I never took seriously 
for a moment even before JKR confirmed Voldemort has no children.