Is Luna Lovegood a transfigured McGonagall, or worse yet--a house elf?

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No: HPFGUIDX 88481

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> I'm ready to be attacked by everyone but I've been thinking that 
if I were a Professor at Hogwarts the easiest way for me to keep an 
eye on the kids would be to be one of them.  

ME: Interesting theory. 

But there are too many indiscrepincies to ignore in this theory.

Luna is in Ginny's year, and she, Ginny, seems to know who she is.  
Also, why would they hook her up with the trio after 4 years, and 
not from the begining of her tenure at Hogwarts?  She could have 
befriended Ginny and kept close with the rest of them.  Plus she is 
in Ravenclaw.  If it were McGonnagal, or a house elf, they would 
have been able to fool the other students, but not the sorting hat.

Besides, Tonks is the only metamorphmagus we have met so far in the 
series.  She, Tonks, says that metamorphmagus are born not made, and 
they need to be registered.  McGonnagal I believe is too much by the 
book to not register herself if she were one.  She did after all 
register herself as an animagimus.

As for being a house elf, I just can't see Dobby transforming 
himself into a human.  If he did, I think he wouldn't want to go 
back to being a house elf.  There is little enough respect for house 
elves with out being a 'freed' elf.

There are also numerous references in OOTP to support that Luna is 
who she says she is.  Her father is after all the editor of The 
Quibbler.  She gets her father to print the article Rita S. wrote.  
Also, Mcgonnagal is lying in St Mungo's after being attacked by 
Umbridges' minions when the 6 students went to the Ministry of Magic 
to save Sirius, Luna included.

There are just too many holes in the theory for me to be able to 
support it.  Sorry