Minerva McGonagall (was Re: Favorite ( or second favorite ;) character moment

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> Potioncat: 
> I'll say Minerva McGonagall. Her best moment was any one with 
> Umbridge...or was it "Tripe, Sybil?" or no, it was when she told 
> Neville he just lacked confidence. 
> 
> Her worst was when she didn't protest Harry's Cruciatus.

Potioncat:

Now that I've started thinking about someone other than Snape, I 
wonder, what was Professor McGonagall doing at Privet Drive all those 
years ago? She wasn't ESE! She wasn't there by instructions. Hagrid's 
left the castle; Snape can't be roused from his dungeon quarters; the 
Headmaster is off on one of his little jaunts; and she takes herself 
away from the castle to sit on a wall all day. She may have been an 
Order Member. Do we know? But that wouldn't explain what she's doing. 
Odd that the Deputy Headmistress would leave Hogwarts with such 
strange goings on going on. Of course, she may not have been the 
Deputy then.

I have an idea, and it will play into her actions in the later books. 
Does anyone else have any thoughts?

...about this, I mean. I know you all have very many thoughts.