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

[totorivers]

No: HPFGUIDX 115510


dcgmck:
> I wonder, though, how you can possibly think that McGonagall never 
> had her own "loosening" influences.  If she didn't, where does 
that 
> wry, dry, sly humor come from?  Where does her authentically rabid 
> enthusiasm for Quidditch come from? From whence stems the 
creativity 
> to favor the Gryffindors on detention by sending them with Hagrid, 
> thus minimizing their punishment while simultaneously torturing 
and 
> terrorizing Malfoy?
> 
> Just because the callow youth through whose eyes we must peer in 
> frustration cannot see the rascal lurking behind those glasses 
> doesn't mean I can't project such qualities on her.  My personal 
> experience is that the strictest teachers tend to be the most fun 
and 
> radical outside the classroom and in faculty meetings.


Toto: It would seem that way yes, but a few details make us wonder 
if she is accustomated at all with dealing with feelings. She has 
feeling of her own, and she is a quirky and intelligent adult, but 
she more than once goes a tad too far in her punishments, especially 
people she likes. She seems unable to cope with fear, and thus takes 
it down on others, as did hermione at the very beginning.
toto