[HPforGrownups] Re: ESE!McGonagall (not what you think)

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 164433

puduhepa98 at aol.com wrote:
>> KJ
>> One of the reasons that I find McGonnagal interesting is because  
> Dumbledore is a compulsive collector of strays. He has Hagrid, a half  
> giant, who would not be accepted in WW society. He has Flitwick, also a  
> half-breed, who's non-human half would not be accepted. We have Snape,  
> who is a Death Eater, and would be hard pressed to find suitable  
> employment outside of Hogwarts, and we have Sybill, who is rather too  
> fond of the cooking sherry. We also have Firenze, who has been thrown  
> out of his herd, and has nowhere else to go.
> 
> Nikkalmati
> I just want to point out the ST is not shown as getting into the sherry  
> until she is under pressure from Delores and her job is threatened.  I  don't 
> think she was drinking before OOP.  Its not an original part of her  character 
> (unless you think she had been drinking in the Hogs Head).
>  
> Nikkalmati


  KJ writes:

    We don't see that much of Sybill until OotP, but I think that the 
sherry has been around for a long time.  It might be part of the reason 
that her character seems so vague all the time. In HBP she is explaining 
to Harry that she had never heard a voice in the RoR "in all her years 
of hiding-of using the room." So, I took it to mean that she has been 
hiding her sherry bottles since she got to Hogwarts.

  KJ