ESE!McGonagall (not what you think)

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 164283



Julie proposed:
> *(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.
<snip>

 
Julie now:
I just want to point out that my version of Enchanted!McGonagall
involves NO physical or sexual attraction between Tom and Minerva.
That was the point of "avoiding any supposed physical attraction",
which I should have mentioned is something that springs from fanfic
not from canon. As I also said, I suspected Minerva might be one
who would be the LEAST likely to be charmed by Tom's personality, 
which would make it ironic if she was MAGICALLY enchanted (or 
Imperioed) to spy for him against her knowledge or will. (And
this "enchantment" could have happened after Minerva was out
of school, and Tom too for that matter.)

What I like best about this theory is that it doesn't make 
McGonagall ESE, or anyone else (and it's really hard to come up
with true motivations for another turncoat character in the
Order, or why JKR would want to turn any of the main characters
that way). Instead we have a character who IS giving Voldemort
information, but against her knowledge or free will, which is
more interesting to me than just another wuss turncoat like
Peter or secretly evil turncoat like Fake!Moody.
 
Julie 
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