Hey Lexicon Steve! was: Protection for EVERYONE at Hogwarts

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 89975

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol:
> Debbie, I know that the Lexicon states that she began teaching in
> December 1956, but do we have that in the books themselves? I 
thought
> she told Umbridge in OoP that she had been teaching for thirty(?)
> years, but I don't think that means thirty(?) years *exactly*, any
> more than Snape's fourteen years means that he's been teaching
> fourteen years to the day. 

geoff:

Yes, we do have that information. 

"'How long have you been teaching at Hogwarts?' Professor Umbridge 
asked.
'Thirty-nine years this December,' said Professor McGonagall 
brusquely, snapping her bag shut. 
Professor Umbridge made a note."

(OOTP "The Hogwarts High Inquisitor" p.287 UK edition)

This is in the autumn term of 1995, so she definitely began in 
December 1956.