McGonagall and Flitwick

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 108062

Anastasia wrote:
> 
> That leaves 2 possibilities: EITHER McGonagall or DD have been 
> teaching something other than Transfiguration for several years OR 
> DD was not at Hogwarts for several years before he was appointed 
> Headmaster (which IMO is very unlikely).

Potioncat:
I think either possibility is very likely.  We could assume DD was 
Deputy Headmaster, (teaching DADA?).  But he could very easily have 
been working with Flammel.  (Do we have dates for that?)  
Headmistress Derwent wasn't at Hogwarts prior to becomming the 
Headmistress... she was a Healer at St. Mungos  (according to her 
portrait in St. Mungos) And given how in the RW people often have 
many jobs over a 30--40 year span, I'd think it very reasonable for 
wizards to do the same.
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Anastasia: 
> By the way, I just realized that McGonagall seems not to be in the
> photograph of the original Order that Moody shows Harry. > 
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>Now I come to the point which interests me - what about 
> Flitwick? Was/Is he in the Order?
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Potioncat:
We know that both Flitwick and McGonagall were at Hogwarts during 
the last war.  I don't think we know what they were doing.  But just 
because they're friends of DD's and on the right side, doesn't mean 
they would be a part of a private army.  We know the Weasleys 
weren't.
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>Potioncat