[Hogs_Head] Has anyone seen the McGonagle is an evil DE essay?

[pippin_999]

ewe2:
> If it hasn't already been done to death, and given the current state
> of play with Snape, is it possible that he is unaware of McGonagall's
> Evil? I don't recall Elkins tackling this.


Pippin:
Er, though I say it as shouldn't, you may think, two archtraitors is
redundant, so McGonagall can be an archtraitor only if Snape is 
DDM. That being the case, Snape can only be aware of McGonagall's
evil if he has been magically prohibited from revealing it.

If there is an archtraitor and it's not Snape, then evil!McGonagall
may well come into play as a red herring if nothing else. But I 
doubt that she's the culprit. There are  many scenes where 
she's not doing anything remotely suspicious. The worst that
can be said against her is that she failed to save Barty Jr. But
if you put yourself in her shoes that's not so unlikely. 

She was standing guard over a man who was responsible for the
murder of one student and the abduction, torture and attempted
murder of another. It would be hard to  come up with a happy 
thought sufficient to control a dementor in  such
circumstances.

Pippin