Another Eavesdropper?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 121858


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:

Inkling:
 
>   How did McGonagall keep Harry,
> > Marietta, and herself out of the way of two spells that took care 
> of
> > everything and everyone else in the room?
> 
> Maybe McGonagall is familiar enough with Dumbledore's repetoire of 
> hexes that she knows how to deflect them?
> 
> (snip)
> > Here's another question: McGonagall had kept Marietta out of 
harm's
> > way, and then afterward McGonagall is described as "getting up and
> > dragging Harry and Marietta with her."  So, is Marietta still
> > conscious or not? I can't see McGonagall lifting an unconscious 
> girl
> > one-handed.  Yet, just after this, Dumbledore talks freely about
> > having to hex Kingsley, Kingsley's Memory charm on Marietta, and 
> how
> > they must keep it a secret that they have had a few minutes to
> > communicate before Dumbledore leaves -- not something I'd expect 
> him
> > to say in front of Marietta, even if she is afraid to talk now.

Geoff:
The interesting point here is, /did/ Professor McGonagall manage to 
keep Marietta totally out of harm's way?

Consider the beginning of the next chapter....

"Everybody knew, for instance, that Harry and Marietta were the only 
students to have witnessed the scene in Dumbledore's office and, as 
Marietta was now in the hospital wing, Harry found himself besieged 
with requests to give a first-hand account." (OOTP "Snape's Worst 
Memory" p,550 UK edition)

Why was she still in the hospital? If it was only a modified memory 
she was suffering from, maybe a quick check with Madam Pomfrey and a 
good night's sleep would have sufficed. Was it more than that?

Good grief, I'm becoming a conspiracy theorist. Help, let me out....

Geoff
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