Hey Lexicon Steve! was: Protection for EVERYONE at Hogwarts

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89982

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.

Thanks, Geoff. Also thanks for the "mimble wimble" quote. (I couldn't
indulge in a forbidden two-word post or I'd have thanked you then.)

At least with this information we can say definitively that she was
never Tom Riddle's teacher (or Hagrid's), but she would definitely
have taught Lucius Malfoy, Snape, and MWPP.

Carol