Hey Lexicon Steve! was: Protection for EVERYONE at Hogwarts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89981

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> Carol wrote:
> 
> > 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. I don't see any reason to think that 
> either
> > of them began teaching at any time other than the normal beginning 
> of
> > the term (September 1).
> 
> KathyK, with her book in hand responds:
> 
> McGonagall marks December as the month she began.  Have a look.
> 
> From OoP Chapter 15, "The Hogwarts High Inquisitor" (US ed. p. 321):
> 
> //"How long have you been teaching at Hogwarts?" Professor Umbridge 
> asked. 
> 
> "Thirty-nine years this December," said Professor McGonagall 
> brusquely, snapping her bag shut.//
> 
> KathyK


Thanks for looking that up. Hm. I wonder what it means. Could it be
that Dippet died at that point and Dumbledore was promoted to
Headmaster so Hogwarts needed a new Transfiguration teacher? That's
the only explanation that I can think of for hiring her in December
rather than September. (BTW, I knew thirty wasn't right, but couldn't
remember the exact number of years.)

Carol