Minerva McGonagall

[Nicolau C. Saldanha]

No: HPFGUIDX 148323

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> wrote:

> Allie:
> 
> <Gasps>  I believe that much more readily than I do the ESE!Lupin 
> theories.  *IF* ESE!McGonagall is indeed true, does anyone have any 
> ideas why Snape doesn't seem to know she is on Voldemort's side?  
> Voldemort has kept her identity from Snape?  If Snape's ESE, then 
> there's no reason for him to bring it up to Dumbledore, but if he's 
> *not*...  (Off topic but why are there always 7 pages of intro before 
> a journey into TBAY?)
>

I would like to delurk to present my hunches on this issue.

Based on what we know about JKR's style, especially from the first 4
books, I bet there will be major surprises in book 7. Snape is so
obviously suspicious that almost nothing concerning him counts as a
major surprise any more. I think he will turn out to be loyal to DD,
and either he killed DD on his orders or, my favorite theory, did not
kill him at all but accepted to stage it so that the WW will believe
him to be DD's murderer (and loyal to LV) --- in fact, the potion
killed DD (so it might be said that Harry killed DD on his orders).
But this is not the major surprise, nor the main point of this post:
the major surprise will be that someone Harry (and the reader) knows
and trusts will betray him. 

Now, I see external reasons to exclude several characters. Lupin is a
good example: he is mistrusted by the WW for being a werewolf: if it
turned out that he *should* be mistrusted, this sends the rather
unpleasant message that prejudices often have a point, not a message I
think JKR would like to pass. For similar reasons, I can not see the
half-giant Hagrid, the part-goblin Flitwick or the half-mad Moody
being traitors. Sirius and DD are dead (I think) and therefore also
out of question. Minerva is almost the only major adult left and her
behaviour on Chapter 1 of PS *is* suspicious (as the TBAY post so well
explains). JKR may be ignorant about snakes to the point of making one
wink, but can she possibly be so ignorant about cats to make a cat wag
its tail out of pure joy, like a dog?

So, I see plot holes in the ESE!Minerva theory but I would not trust
her too much.

Nicolau