Lupin and DD's Headmastership; (wasESE!McGonagall (not what you think))

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 164561

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, puduhepa98 at ... wrote:
>
> > Carol
> What happened, IMO, is that the headmaster, Armando Dippet, died   
> suddenly in December the asstant headmaster and  Transfiguration
> teacher Albus Dumbledore took over the position, leaving  the
> Transfiguration job open, so McGonagall <snip> got the job. (I 
> realize that this interpretation doesn't fit with Lupin's story,
>  <snip>
> but it does fit with the HBP timeline for Tom Riddle's) 

> Nikkalmati:
>  
> <snip>
> Lets say Lupin was bitten at the age of 5, just about 1955, when 
> DD  became headmaster.

Mike:
I also agree with Carol's interpretation of the timeline. I'd like to 
put just a little finer point on the discussion and to clear up 
Nikkalmati's dates above. I think that Voldemort's second interview 
to which Carol refers happened in the winter of '56-'57. This makes 
it "39 years this December" for McGonnagall in the fall of '95.It 
also gives Tom Riddle approx a year and a half at Borgin and Burkes 
(he disappears late in '46) and then reappears for the interview ten 
years after the Hepzibah Smith incident, per Dumbledore's timeline in 
the "Lord Voldemort's Request" chapter of HBP.

BTW, I have the Marauders and Snape being born in late '57 or pre-
Sept of '58. That puts them starting school no-earlier-than '69 to 
ensure that Molly has already graduated. (You know, the whole 
Whomping Willow not being there when she was thing from GoF).

> Nikkalmati:
> His family would have assumed, based on past practice, that he 
> could not go to Hogwarts, because no one yet would have been aware 
> of  DD's tendencies to allow everyone the same opportunities. They 
> may not have been aware until Lupin received his letter from 
> Hogwarts 6 years  later that he would be invited, or, if they 
> expected the invitation they were surprised when they discussed   
> the situation with DD that he was willing to make "accommodations" 

Mike:
This also was Red Hen's take on the situation (or rather the method 
of "accommodating" JKR's bad maths) to which I concur. Besides, as I 
believe you so eloquently atated once before, we should be careful of 
how accurate anything Lupin says ("out numbered 20 to 1") because 
half of it is cheese blintz. (I still LOL at that line)

Mike, going to the kitchen to make a cheese blintz and see if he can 
talk like Lupin :D