Observation on potions; and: is this a mystery?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 168442

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:

> Now for the unrelated possible mystery: Is anybody else here puzzled 
> by, when Harry repeats Hermione's observations on Umbridge to Minny 
> the Cat, Minny replies (I don't have the exact quote, but this is 
> pretty close): "At least you've been listening to Miss Granger." 
> 
> How does Minny know that this came from Hermoine? Maybe Herminny is 
closer than we think to our Minny? 


zanooda:

I suppose Hermione was the only one in the whole Great Hall who was 
listening to Umbridge's speach :-), the rest of the students gave up 
almost at the very beginning. McGonagall must have noticed, so she knew 
that Harry could find out the contents of the speach only from Hermione.