Minerva McGonagall--DD's Right-Hand Woman or Truly a Secondary Character?

[catimini15]

No: HPFGUIDX 115478


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> I think (Minerva McGonagall)'s DD's back-up at Hogwarts, pure and 
simple and she'd only
> get involved peripherally with Order stuff - and then only in 
emergencies.
> 
> Yes, she is seen in the vicinity of GH - in Muggle clothes. Which 
could
> (if one of my pet theories turns up trumps) mean that she's Muggle 
born 
> or half-blood. (I think that an "identifier" for pure-bloodedness 
is that
> the adults *always* wear robes - remember Madam Malkin "Robes for
> *all* occasions". Any adult seen voluntarily wearing Muggle 
clothing, so 
> the QWC might not count, is not pureblood; which casts an 
interesting 
> light on Dear Dolly.)
> 
> I seem to remember a reference to a Quidditch cup/prize/plaque (?
Lexicon)
> with the name McGonagall on it; dated about 50 years ago and the 
first
> initial wasn't M. A brother possibly? Or husband? Was she born 
McGonagall
> or did she acquire it? And what happened to him anyway? Scope for 
lots
> of  speculation there.
> No canon unfortunately.
> 
> One possibility to add - she's Hermione's role model. 
> This is Hermione in 50  years.

Did you mean that Minerva is seen wearing muggle clothes in the 
vicinity of Grimmauld Place ? Indeed, she is. Maybe she was on some 
sort of a mission that day in OotP. But she is the transfiguration 
teacher after all. She probably can switch her robes into the 
perfect tweed tailleur as easily as saying sherbet lemon. 

I doubt she is a muggle born otherwise she would know what a sherbet 
lemon is. In the first pages of PS/SS (chapter The Boy Who Lived), 
Dumbledore offers Minerva a sherbet lemon to which she responds : «A 
what ?» «They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of» replies 
DD. Maybe our favorite headmaster is, himself, a muggle born...

Nadine