Minerva McGonagall's background

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No: HPFGUIDX 102777

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
>  "Salvador, Anjali" <asalvador at s...> wrote:
> What,
> > though, would have made Dumbledore stop teaching in the middle 
of the year?
> >  
> 
> Potioncat:
> Good questions.  I snipped most of your post with the details. 
> 
> Actually I think there is a lot we don't know.  We know Dippet was 
> the Headmaster during Tom Riddle's days.  But do we know who the 
> deputy headmaster was.  We don't really know if DD continued at 
> Hogwarts until he became Headmaster or if he went to some other 
> activity and returned.  Was  he ever the Deputy Headmaster?  <snip>
> 
> But it does seem that something happened that December to cause 
> McGonagall to come on in mid year.


Could it be that Headmaster Dippett died in December?  That happened 
a few years ago in the school where I am now working - the principal 
died the week before school started and a new principal was 
assigned.  It seems entirely possible that Dumbledore was the Deputy 
just as Professor McGonagall is now.

Ravenclaw Bookworm (who also has more questions than answers and 
keeps finding more.)