That Minerva, what a card (WAS: Patroni (speculation) )

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 182961

> Potioncat on McGonagall:
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> But I bet she was a corker in her youth!
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Dear Minerva,

Congratulations on your appointment as Headmistress at Hogwarts. They
couldn't have found a more deserving candidate. I know the school
will grow and prosper under your tutelage. You have the utmost
respect of your fellow professors and I know the students, from
whichever house, will come to see your fairness and compassion.

Ah, how things have changed, have they not m'dear? I can still
remember our times together at Hogwarts, when we were students. By
the way, has anyone ever figured out that one of the gargoyles
outside of the teacher's lounge used to be a troll until you
transformed it? You never told me where you found that troll, was it
in the Forbidden Forest? I know I'll never forget that time the
Centaurs chased us out, I still have the scar on my tush where one of
their arrows got me. I think he was aiming there, but who knows,
after I called him Seabiscuit he wasn't to happy with me.

And what about the time you transformed that fish into a book and
snuck it into Amelia Bones' book bag? It took her forever to figure
out where that smell was coming from. I never laughed so hard as the
time I watched her empty all her books out and kept screaming
Scourgify at that bag, over and over again to no avail. She never
found out it was you, did she?

But your best one had to be the one at that Muggle wax museum, Madam
Tussaud's was it? When you made the wax statues talk back to the
Muggles. Then you animated them all to have them perform the last act
of MacBeth in the Henry the VIII display. I was there, though you
didn't see me. Marie Antoinette crying "Out, damned spot!" from her
head that she was holding in her arms. Elvis and James Dean carrying
tree limbs and singing "A-huntin' we will go..." Where do you come up
with them?

Oh, I've always been meaning to ask you, but I don't see you much
these days; Is it true that you once transformed into your cat and
snuck into Buckingham Palace with the other pets back in the 50s? I
heard that you transformed every handbag the Queen owned into a glass
slipper and left a note that said, "For Charles, he's going to need
these!" Is that true?

Minerva, we had some fun times when we were younger didn't we? Well,
you had some fun times, I was only along for the ride. What to you
say I stop by Hogwarts and we can reminisce?

Irreverently yours,
Dedalus Diggle

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Dedalus,

I told you 50 years ago to leave me alone, and I haven't changed my
mind since. And if you tell anyone about the wax museum, I'll turn
you into a toad again and this time I won't change you back. You know
I can do it.

Minerva McGonagall
Headmistress, Hogwarts
and bloody well going to stay that way

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Mike, who wishes Minerva a long and prosperous reign as Head Witch.
And who foolishly forgot to sign his first post and is re-issuing it 
now with a signature.