NOT the Real Spy (Was Re: The REAL Spy)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 168374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "julie" <juli17 at ...> wrote:

For instance, we know Hagrid was entrusted with the care of
Harry after the murder of his parents at GH, yet Minerva's
"role" is to stand in front of the Dursley household all day
in her cat form waiting for Dumbledore to eventually appear
and tell her what's going on (and he leaves of good many of
the particulars out).

Obviously this doesn't prove anything, but *if* Minerva
is revealed to be a spy it would be the sort of thing we
could point back to as clues to her true nature.

va32h here:

The presence of the McGonnagal character in this scene is a literary 
device. Firstly, it's part of that whole "Vernon notices strange 
things are happening" theme - a cat reading a map! It also lets the 
reader see an example of Animagi, so that when we explore that 
concept in PoA it is not entirely new. 

McGonnagal wasn't sent to Privet Drive, she went of her own accord, 
and Rowling put her there to set the scene for unusual goings-on at 
the Dursely house. 

Of *course* Dumbledore can't tell her everything that's going on - 
that would mean telling the reader everything, which Rowling does not 
want to do in the first ten pages of the first book of a 7 book 
series.  

FWIW I don't think Minerva is a spy - that would be a shocking twist 
for the sake of a shocking twist. I don't see any purpose it would 
serve in the series. 

va32h