Why Did McGonagall Wait For DD *All Day?*

[zeroirregardless]

No: HPFGUIDX 157069

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rebecca" <dontask2much at ...> wrote:
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> Something's been bugging me 
 ...

> 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?

    Perhaps she's surprised simply because it's so dark. After all,
Dumbledore has put out all the streetlights.

 
> Why has she been watching them *all day*? 

    I think it's reasonable that, when you turn into your Animagus
form, you take on the characteristics of that animal -- behavioral as
well as physical. Cats are well-known for patiently watching a
mousehole for long periods. So it may not have been very difficult for
her.
    And she must have been very anxious to find out the truth about
James, Lily and You Know Who.

    I have a couple of questions from later in the same book.

    o When the heck does Filch sleep?

    o While taking 50 points each from Harry, Hermione and Neville,
Professor McGonagall says "Four students out of bed in one night! I
never heard of such a thing!"  But we now know that she was familiar
with the Marauders. Is it plausible that she never even *heard* about
*them* being out of bed together?

                                       Zero Irregardless