Hogwarts functioning during missing 24 hours

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No: HPFGUIDX 140507

Geoff wrote: 
>So the attack was on the Monday night. Obviously the news had 
>spread overnight because Professor McGonagall was in Privet Drive 
>by 08:30. Dumbledore didn't arrive until nearly midnight. I am 
>surprised that the news reached Hogwarts so quickly. I must admit, 
>I'd never considered the school having a day off but McG must have 
>been out of the building going like the clappers to reach Little 
>Whinging by that time in the morning.

Elyse:
I dont know if we can be sure that Mcgonagall was at Hogwarts.
I presume Hogwarts was closed at the time of Harry's attack.
I mean, Harry's birthday is always during the summer holidays,
at which time Hogwarts is closed for the vacation.
So if Harry was attacked on his first birthday, Hogwarts must have 
been closed, and the teachers were on vacation.
Dumbledore might have been, as Harry speculates in GoF,
out on a beach somewhere like Southend-on-Sea sunning himself with 
his toes in the sand. But I dont think so, seeing as they were in
the middle of WW war.
I suppose Snape must have been in Spinners End, and 
Mcgonagall at her own house, which may be near Surrey.
Hagrid was probably the only one at Hogwarts seeing as it is his 
permanant home. (And if he left, who would have fed Fang?) :)

Elyse