[HPforGrownups] Why Did McGonagall Wait For DD *All Day?*

[Ffred Clegg]

No: HPFGUIDX 157034

Rebecca wrote:
>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:

>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?

Let's try to get inside Dumbledore's head as that day started. The Death 
Eaters have lost their leader but the rest of the organisation is still 
intact and could be extremely dangerous. Harry has been rescued and taken to 
a safe place (Hogwarts would be my theory, which would explain how and where 
Hagrid and McGonagall met). The chief task for the Order and the Ministry is 
now to hunt down the remnants of Voldemort's organisation and sift out which 
ones were under imperio and which were genuine. But suppose the DEs had 
tried a counterattack and had taken the Dursleys hostage or even killed 
them - Dumbledore's plans would have been under sever threat. I think that 
McGonagall was there to protect the Dursley house as Harry's place of safety 
while he was growing up - she may not have got the full message about why 
she was there but then Dumbledore was never the world's best at 
communicating!

cheers

Ffred

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