McGonagall first subject

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 114534


kmc wrote:
> In OotP, McGonagall tells Umbridge that she had been teaching for 
> 39 years this December. Using the dates from the HP-Lexicon, 
> McGonagall began teaching in 1956. Dumbledore did not become 
> Headmaster until 1970.  Dumbledore was the Transfiguration teacher 
> when Tom Riddle was at Hogwarts in 1942. 
> 
> What subject did McGonagall teach when she started at Hogwarts 
> December 1956?
> 
> If she started as the Transfiguration teacher, did Dumbledore 
> teach anther subject like DADA or Potions?

Yb:
What makes you say DD wasn't the headmaster in 1956? Is that on the 
Lexicon? (Tools around, doing some research... Drat! Timelines are 
down at the HPL! Drat!) Well... I'll assume you got that from the 
Lexicon, and they got it from Lupin's quote in the Shrieking 
Shack, "Then DD became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic." I always 
felt that DD took over after Dippet, and that said quote could be 
interpreted different ways... Anyway, IF DD had to teach another 
class (because I'm almost certain McGonagall has been teaching 
Transfiguration, and only Transfiguration, for four decades, she 
just seems so solid on it, and we never saw her substituting for 
Lupin in PoA, now did we?) he probably taught DADA. Just a hunch. 
Potions is less likely. He'd get his beard in the cauldron by 
accident.

~Yb, taking her new keyboard for a spin. Mmmmmm.... And thinking 
about DD hovering over a cauldron like the three witches in Macbeth.
Hee hee.