McGonagall and DD' roles (wasRe: Peter Pettigrew's House

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No: HPFGUIDX 121007


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> 
>  
<SNIP> I suspect, based on canon, but not confirmed, that MM replaced 
DD as 
> Transfiguration teacher. I don't think it was ever said that DD was 
> a Head of House or a Deputy Headmaster. We know that DD became 
> Headmaster shortly before the Marauders came, but we do not know 
who 
> his Deputy was nor who the Heads of Gryffindor and Slytherin were 
at 
> that time. We do know that it isn't a requirement to be on staff to 
> become Headmaster. Headmistress Derwent (I hope I spelled that 
> correctly.) was a Healer at St. Mungo's prior to becoming 
> Headmistress.
> Potioncat

I may be wrong about this, as I don't have access to OOTP right now, 
but I believe that Dilys Derwent was Head of St. Mungo's AFTER she 
was Headmistress of Hogwarts.  Like I say, I could have things 
backwards.

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