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

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 164347


> blitz:
>  think that McGonagall's weakest trait is also her best - she is
> intensely loyal, to a fault. She is willing to take on the Minister
> until DD tells her to stand down. She reminds me a bit of Sirius
> Black, though a bit more dilute - a bit of a hothead, stands behind
> her friends though hell and back, and stubborn as sin.
> 

    KJ writes:

      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.

      So, why do we have Minerva McGonnagal?

   KJ