[HPforGrownups] Re: McGonagall as Deputy Headmistress

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 116778

> 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.
>

jinbtr--

> 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

feklar--

Yes, this has occurred to me too, though in my head I file that under the DD
as manipulative bastard conspiracy theory file.  Plotwise, JKR clearly
wanted to introduce LV at this point, but doing so via a detention from MM
just reads like a very ham-handed way of doing so to me.  The whole time, I
was thinking, "what the hell?" about MM instead of LV and the unicorns.

Feklar