McGonagall

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No: HPFGUIDX 90186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Freeman, Louise Margaret" 
<lfreeman at m...> wrote:
> Hmmm...  wouldn't a teacher normally begin in September?  Sounds 
like 
> McGonagall was a mid-year replacement for someone.  This suggests 
that 
> something unfortunate happened to the previous Transfiguration 
teacher 
> mid-year.  Or perhaps the headmaster; since Dumbledore was 
teaching 
> Transfiguration 50 years ago, he could have been in that position 
then moved 
> to the Headmaster post when it was vacated. McGonagall would have 
then been 
> hired to replace him.


Bookworm:
Good catch.  It's possible that Headmaster Dippet had a heart attack 
or stroke, Dumbledore was promoted to Headmaster, then McGonagall 
was hired to preplace Dumbledore.  

What I would like to know is what McGonagall was doing during the 
decade (roughly) between leaving as a student and returning as a 
professor.  Have there been any threads on this that I haven't found?

Ravenclaw Bookworm