McGonagall as Deputy Headmistress

[jlnbtr]

No: HPFGUIDX 116748


Potioncat:
> > > 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.

Feklar:
> (Edited)
> At the time in question, MM knew there was something killing
> powerful magical creatures in the forest and sent them in right at 
the time
> the killings were most likely to occur.  Yeah, Hagrid was there, 
but even if
> they were all together, can you reasonably expect one man, even a
> half-giant, to protect four panicked kids?  Above and beyond that, 
who sends a bunch of eleven year olds
> out to see unicorns slaughtered?  That's pretty sadistic, imo.


Maybe it was Dumbledore's idea. I stick to my idea that he seems to 
know what's going to happen and he needed to give Harry some clues 
that LV was gathering strengh to get back. The question is, if the 
knew LV was in Quirell's turban why didn't he stopped him? Ever since 
the first time I read PS this has been on my mind. Right at the end 
when Ron and Hermione are about to send him an owl asking for help, 
he arrives and knows Harry's gone looking for the bad guy. And why 
else would he had explained Harry how the mirror of Erised worked? He 
*knew* Harry would need it to fulfill his task of saving the stone. 
Maybe it was all part of his training to finally defeat LV
Juli