ESE!McGonagall (not what you think)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 164257

Julie:
Well, I'll have to leave the mechanics to JKR! And to everyone here to
start punching holes in this theory. Take your aim...

Ceridwen:
Okay.  As someone who has proposed both ESE!Weasleys and LV!
Dumbledore, there's just one part that bothers me...

Julie:
*(snip)*
>  A McGonagall who has been "enchanted" by Tom Riddle, perhaps since 
their school days. 
*(snip)*
> It also provides a perfect tie-in between Tom Riddle and 
McGonagall, something substantial related to their shared past for 
JKR to exploit while avoiding any supposed physical attraction 
between them during their school days--YUCK.

Ceridwen:
Aside from the fact that Tom Riddle was good-looking enough for Harry 
to notice when he met the sixteen year old memory of Tom (so, not 
YUCK, just creepy, and only then in hindsight), we don't have any 
canon that McGonagall was in school with Harry.

In fact, if she was a "sprightly seventy" in the first book (heck, 
maybe I'm the one with memory difficulties, blame old age if I am), 
then she was born about 1921, and would have graduated Hogwarts in 
1939.  There may be one shared year with Tom Riddle, but for an 
eighteen year old to have a crush on an "ickle firstie" is even 
creepier than two same-age students having crushes on each other.

I know Tom Riddle was precocious in his magic, and it's possible that 
he could do things in his first year that other students probably 
couldn't, but I get the impression from your post that McGonagall had 
some attraction to him while they were in school together that he 
capitalized on.

Aside from there possibly being no shared school years together, then 
TR would have had to sense something about her that would have made 
Enchanting her something he might do, while keeping this enchantment 
a secret.  I think he would have to have had an idea about the 
future - his own, of course, and McGonagall's as HoH and Deputy 
Headmistress to Dumbledore's Headmaster - that would make him want to 
do that.

Ceridwen.