McGonagall and Flitwick

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108076

Anastasia said:

"By the way, I just realized that McGonagall seems not to be in the
photograph of the original Order that Moody shows Harry. Of course, 
it could be that she is somewhere near Harry's parents, and Moody 
just didn't have time to point her out. I rule out the possibility 
that she wasn't in the Order, because she has taught at Hogwarts for 
so many years and is so close to DD..."


DuffyPoo now:

In OotP Sirius tells Harry that the world isn't divided into good people and Death Eaters.  (they were complaining about Umbridge being evil)

I think it is the same thing with the Order.  I think that picture showed everybody who was a member at that time. They were outnumbered, then, it is said, 20 to 1.  It was a small group.  
People have other commitments in life.  Certainly fighting LV is a big one but there were bad people abroad - the Blacks for instance - who weren't DEs.  Flitwick may have well be on the side of good, and for whatever personal reasons, felt he couldn't make the committment to be a member of the Order.  Arthur and Molly Weasley weren't in that picture either.  Nor was Fudge, Crouch Sr, Mr. Diggory, etc.  We don't know a great deal about McGonagall's back story.  She may have been married with children and was afraid of harm coming to them (not unlike the backstory of Dean Thomas on JKRs website where Dean's real father left to protect him and his mother).  Maybe Flitwick & McGonagall felt they couldn't make the committment to be members of the Order simply *because* they were teachers at Hogwarts.


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