Why Did McGonagall Wait For DD *All Day?*

[rebecca]

No: HPFGUIDX 156933

Something's been bugging me - please note, I don't have answers but I do 
have some intriguing questions. So, let's go waaa-aay back to the beginning, 
shall we?  First the passage below from PS/SS:



"....Dumbledore slipped the Put-Outer back inside his cloak and set off down 
the street toward number four, where he sat down on the wall next to the 
cat. He didn't look at it, but after a moment he spoke to it.

"Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall."

He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had gone. Instead he was smiling at 
a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the 
shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes. She, too, was wearing 
a cloak, an emerald one. Her black hair was drawn into a tight bun. She 
looked distinctly ruffled.

"How did you know it was me?" she asked.

"My dear Professor, I 've never seen a cat sit so stiffly."

"You'd be stiff if you'd been sitting on a brick wall all day," said 
Professor McGonagall."

What can we deduce from this passage? Well for one, McGonagall asks 
Dumbledore how he *knew* it was her, implying that's she's surprised he 
recognized her. Does this mean that Dumbledore didn't know what McGonagall 
looks like when in her Animagus form? Odd, because you'd think he would know 
that about his transfiguration professor? Yet there is more after Dumbledore 
confirms the rumors about James, Lily and Harry, are true:

"Professor McGonagall pulled out a lace handkerchief and dabbed at her eyes 
beneath her spectacles. Dumbledore gave a great sniff as he took a golden 
watch from his pocket and examined it. It was a very odd watch.  It had 
twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the 
edge. It must have made sense to Dumbledore, though, because he put it back 
in his pocket and said, "Hagrid's late. I suppose it was he who told you I'd 
be here, by the way?"

"Yes," said Professor McGonagall. "And I don't suppose you're going to tell 
me why you're here, of all places?"

"I've come to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. They're the only family he 
has left now."



McGonagall goes on to express shock that Dumbledore would consider leaving 
Harry with the Dursleys, *whom she has been watching all day.*  Question: 
Why has she been watching them *all day*? (She states she doesn't know what 
Dumbledore's plan is, nor that the rumors about James, Lily and Harry were 
true) While Hagrid told her that Dumbledore would be there, he evidently 
didn't tell her why nor what time. Because McGonagall has been there *all 
day* - what was so important that she had to to watch the Dursleys waiting 
for Dumbledore to arrive for some unknown purpose to her?

Don't know about you folks, but it's intriguing to me.  Anyone with 
thoughts, please share because it's driving me nuts! :)



Rebecca, who also noted that McGonagall is described as a "severe looking 
woman" and wonders about relations to another "severe" individual....