Minerva McGonagall

[Jade]

No: HPFGUIDX 148368

Nicolau:
> <snip> I think he [Snape] 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)}} 

Well, if you remember from the GOF book, Mad-Eye Moody (impersonated
by Barty Crouch Jr.) told all the students that they could all point
their wands at him, yelling Avada Kedavra, and he wouldn't "get so
much as a nose bleed." Is it so far of a stretch that Snape did just 
that?

> <snip> 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. <snip> 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). <snip>

Interesting, but I seriously doubt it. Not only has she (Minerva)
proved herself true to Dumbledore, but it's not in her personality,
psychologically. She is a strict and impartial personality. But who
knows what goes on in the mind of JKR! She's such a genius. I don't
see Hagrid as a traitor, nor Flitwick. Moody? (stifles hysterical
laughter) Yeah, right! LOL! As for Lupin, I can't consider him a
possibility. When he's not a werewolf, he's such a docile person and
was described as the goody-good of the foursome back in their day.

Just my opinion...

Jade