[HPforGrownups] MM crush on DD? (was: Wondering.... about Snape & McGonagall)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118708

--- cubfanbudwoman <susiequsie23 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> SSSusan:
> Oh, goody!  Someone bringing up MM's possible crush on DD!  I was 
> hoping someone would pick up on that when I first posted on MM a 
> couple of weeks ago, but no one did then.  
> 
> So, what say all ye?  
> Crush or no crush?  
> Is DD aware?  
> Does he share the feeling?


Sorry for taking a month to respond to this but I have a quiet day
today and so will respond to all the posts I've been saving up for
weeks and get them all out of the way at once.  (MWAHAHAHAHAHA!)  You
have been warned.

Yes, McGonagall has a crush on Dumbledore.  She is a little
embarassed by it, not being the kind of person who explains her
personal feelings to anyone, especially about intimacies like this. 
She's not a giggly teen though; she doesn't have "Mrs. D" fantasies. 
She just wants to be at hand, being useful.

Yes, Dumbledore is aware of her feelings.  And while he doesn't share
them, he's touched and flattered by them.  He's an old man, just
waiting for the final end of Voldemort before he sails to the far
horizon from which no traveller ever returns, and he's also aware
that he's more than twice McGonagall's age.  He respects her
tremendously, and if she finds him a worthy recipient of her
affections, then he is honoured.  But those kind of intimacies are
over for him, and he does nothing to encourage her.  

On the other hand if she dies or is killed in the series, he will
genuinely grieve like he will for almost no one else.  (One does
wonder what happened to those Aurors who hit her with four stunning
spells at once.  One trusts that their medical benefits cover the
long-term treatment they will require once Dumbledore was finished -
persuading - them how not to do things at Hogwarts.)

Magda


		
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