ESE!McGonagall (not what you think)

[Elizabeth Snape]

No: HPFGUIDX 164305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 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 [sic].
> 
> 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.
> 
> Ceridwen.
>

Something didn't ring quite true with me about Minerva being 70 at the 
time of the first book so I couldn't help going into Hermione mode just 
a bit and did some research at Accio Quote.  The 'spritely 70' remark 
was made during an October 2000 interview after GoF was published.  In 
2001 she says Snape was 35 or 36 during GoF so I'm assuming that when 
she answered the question about McGonagall she was also thinking of 
GoF. Anyway her answers are usually relevant to the latest book 
published.

We're such an active group of writers that sometimes we forget earlier 
posts but I think someone else has already mentioned that Minerva was 
born in 1924 making her two years older than Voldie.  So they probably 
were at school together but contact would be doubtful since they 
weren't in the same house.

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