McGonagall as Deputy Headmistress

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 116707



potioncat wrote:
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> 
> For one year we had the goofy Lockhart as DADA.  I don't know about 
> you, but I thought he was a little creepy.  Yet Harry was assigned 
> detention with Lockhart for at least 4 hours, alone late at night. 
> It was at Lockhart's request, but it was the Deputy who assigned it 
> for an illegal use of a magic car.  What was she thinking?
> 

Tammy replies: 
I think she thought that Harry and Ron didn't really mean any harm,
nor did they do any harm (after all, the muggles were Obliviated, and
the tree is perfectly fine and Ron's right, it did do more damage to
them anyhow). And I also think that MM knows that Lockhart, while
borish and irritating, is harmless. I also suspect that she knows what
Harry thinks of Lockhart and that having to spend 4 hours with
Lockhart was indeed a hellish punishment. MM has her own little
sadistic streak I think, deep down in :P

potioncat wrote:
> She also assigned 4 first-year students to go into the Forbidden 
> Forest in the middle of the night as detention for wandering around 
> the castle at night.  Sort of fits the crime, but seems extreme.

Tammy replies:
I think that she, like Dumbledore, trusts Hagrid completely. She knows
they are perfectly safe in Hagrid's company. Beyond that I suspect
that Dumbledore may have planted this detention in her head,
Dumbledore probably wanted Harry to know a few of the things that were
revealed in the forest (but then again, I believe in the idea of
Dumbledore leading Harry into all of these dangers to prepare him to
face Voldemort)


> 
> So, what do we think of this stern-but-fair teacher?
> 

Tammy replies:

personally, I think MM rocks. Nothing gets by her, she'll make a very
fitting Headmistress someday. Like Dumbledore, there is little that
goes on in the castle that she doesn't know about.

-Tammy