Knight 2 King--Hermione is MaGonagall !!!!

[vmonte]

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Helen R. Granberry wrote:
As much as I think it would be totally cool for McGonagall to be
Hermione (and secretly married to Ron/Dumbledore), I'd have to see 
more evidence. I know this may sound hypocritical coming from me, but 
there isn't enough to suggest it. 
Most damning? The conversation with Dumbledore outside the Dursleys. 
If they are Ron and Hermione, this conversation would have been very, 
very different. This is my primary issue with Hermione=McG. Could she 
be pretending? I suppose... but why pretend when no one else was 
around?

In the end though, when you compare the evidence for Ron=DD to 
Herm=McG, there is not nearly as much evidence. It's not that I don't 
want it to be so... especially when I really do believe Ron=DD and 
I'd hate to have him so lonely, it's just that there isn't enough 
evidence and there is still the problem of her acting completely 
clueless when she was alone with Dumbledore.

vmonte responds:
My take on the time travel theory is that something terrible happened 
during the time that Harry, Hermione, and Ron went to school. That at 
the end of the second war there are many casualties on both sides. 
(Harry and many other wizards, including Ron's mother, are probably 
killed.) Ron goes back in time (as DD) to stop several events from 
taking place. Because he is altering events subtly (other times not 
so subtly) DD is often caught off guard when his actions do not 
change events the way he planned.  

For example: I believe that DD tried to save Sirius from being 
killed, again.  When Ron went back in time he decided that he was 
going to save Sirius, for Harry's sake. Ron (now as DD) forces Sirius 
to stay at headquarters so that whatever the event was that killed 
him originally does not take place.  (Let's say Sirius was originally 
killed before the fight at the MOM. DD makes sure that Sirius is 
unable to be at the location of his 1st death. That date passes and 
DD thinks Sirius is now safe.) But, in forcing Sirius to stay at 
Order headquarters, he inadvertantly again condemns him to death. 
Sirius hates being forced to stay at Headquarters and so decides to 
leave and look for Harry--and gets killed again. (DD tells Harry in 
OOTP that he made a mistake by telling Sirius to stay at 
headquarters.) 
Ok, so Sirius dies again... 
I think that DD was also trying to save Harry's parents from dying 
but Sirius once again changed what happened originally. He did 
something different then he did in the first timeline--he now makes 
Peter the keeper. 
Cause and effect. Whenever DD changes the timeline the responses (or 
the effect) also changes in others.  Yes, I am saying that Sirius 
messed up DD's plans twice (unintentionally of course).             
So, if Sirius unintentionally messed up DD's plan to save the 
Potter's by making Peter the keeper it is possible that McGonagall 
would show up at the Dursley's and say: 'Is it true that the parents 
(Potter's) are dead?'(not exact wording.) 

What is interesting to me about the Dursley scene is that McGonagall 
shows up at the Dursley's even though it is obvious that DD did not 
know that she was going to be there.  

Minerva is there because she knows the date that Harry's parents are 
killed, and knows that Harry grew up at the Dursley house! (She is 
Hermione!) What she doesn't know is that DD's plan to save the 
Potter's did not work.
Changing history is a tricky thing--changing one thing can cause a 
multiple of other things to change as well. 

Now here are the real problems with my theory:

I'm not really bothered by Hermione's hair color. Mostly because I 
had auburn hair as a child, and now it's very dark (when I don't dye 
it! HA). 
What does bother me is that I just heard somewhere that Rowling 
stated that none of the big three would become animagus. If the big 
three are Ron, Hermione, and Harry, then Hermione is not likely to be 
McGonagall (since she is an animagus).  (Transfiguration seems a lot 
more difficult--involving potions or magic to change into an animals, 
and I don't think that Minerva is using those methods of 
transformation.) I do remember (not sure if it was in the book or 
movie) Hermione saying something about the polyjuice potion: That 'if 
mixed or used incorrectly could have lasting consequences' (not exact 
wording). Perhaps she will find that she inadvertently has changed 
her body chemistry. I don't know.

I agree with you that Minerva hasn't done anything exciting yet--but 
I think she will in the next two books. 
1. She already told Umbridge that Harry will become Auror if it is 
the last thing she does. I think Minerva will keep her word even if 
Umbridge is out of the picture. (In fact Minerva may have used the 
fight she had with Umbridge as an excuse to prepare Harry... Hermione 
is always helping Harry, isn't she.     :)

vivian