Could it be? No... never...!

[Will]

I came across a very interesting theory today posted in a Live Journal group. I'm not saying that I buy the theory one hundred percent, but it does bring up a few good points which I am now pondering over. I thought that maybe I'd share and get your opinions on it.

Erm, I guess I should warn about the spoilers.
If you haven't read all six books [which I doubt, but that's not the point] then do not read this.


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Personally I think she might be a little overzealous about all of that, but I admit that the evidence does make me wonder.

[KoNeko]

Wow. And I thought the whole "Dumbledore is not dead" thing was screamworthy. That's a really interesting theory, and it does explain why McG sometimes comes across as rather frigid... but... wouldn't Dumbledore have seen through this at some point?

[hermoine]

Haven't read the whole article yet so I'll edit this post or post my own theory on it later. However I wanted to comment briefly on what you said Ko.

I recall what JK Rowling herself had said once regarding Snape and Malfoy. She said how we [the fans] shouldn't look at them in such positive light because we look mostly at the actors and how wonderfully they portray the characters in the movies. She did a whole speech of how we should keep away from such characters, never to trust them, and there in a way she was referring to her ex-husband.

Thus if you take a look at that piece of the interview, she might have been hinting, even before HBP came out, how we shouldn't trust Snape and in light of HBP perhaps Snape is not innocent at all.

Now if you consider this, that would mean that Dumbledore was fooled. Could there possibly be chances of him having been fooled a second time?

I haven't read the article yet so this might be way I'm finding the idea that McGonagall is what the article states she is to be somewhat stretched. But I'll stop here on that and I'll comment on it later once I've read the whole thing.

[Will]

I'd really hate to believe that Dumbledore was fooled -- twice is even worse. I think it would bug me even more if it was Snape though... but you're right 'Moine. I did read the interview and I was really disappointed.

[Fluffy]

Yowza. It's an interesting theory but... okay, there are some issues here.

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS who am I talking to? We've all read 6

1. The whole "unregistered" animagus thing. This is much more explicable than it looks. Minerva could simply have meant "You mean you can tell, in the dark, between any old tabby cat on a garden wall and me in particular, even when you're not expecting me to be here because you didn't know which Order member would be watching over the Dursleys right now?" And as for the looking ruffled bit, well, SOMEONE just betrayed everybody, everyone's on tenterhooks, nobody knows that Voldemort is gone for certain, and it wouldn't be outside Voldemort's range of abilities to try to finish off Harry's surviving relations by sneaking in disguised as Dumbledore.

2. Okay, liking sports doesn't mean one is a psychotic sociopath. I mean, look at Keeps and Izzy. They don't have the dark mark, unless I missed a LOT in the last six months.

3. Suspecting Minerva on the basis that she "hasn't done anything" fails to account for a few crucial items. She bought Harry a broom and got him on the Quidditch team. She acts in loco parentis, which, while it doesn't involve her giving the lead trio dangerous maps or wicked prank ideas, does help them - including her discipline. She became acting headmistress twice, over the COS hullaballoo and then again when Umbridge got Dumbledore sacked, and while she didn't do a lot with that power while it lasted, the first time she'd never done it before and the second time she had Umbridge to contend with, didn't she? And now she's going to have to play an important role, because she's the Headmistress now that Dumbledore's gone for keeps.

4. Being contemptuous of a teacher who insinuates that kids are going to die is not suspicious in a person who is committed (in a way not inconsistent with most of the Scottish scholarly types I've met) to reason, systematic proof, and the end of superstition. It's totally in character. Plus, she probably thinks Dumbledore took Trelawney on as a charity case. Did she even know about the two real prophecies?

5. If McGonagall is Voldie's right-hand woman, how would she not know who opened the Chamber of Secrets in the 1940's?

6. McGonagall helped Malfoy when Moody/Crouch was punishing him ferret-style because she's FAIR. It's a Gryffindor thing, ne?

...yeah, there's more, but this is for starters. My poll vote here is "Mmm... interesting... but no."

[bethanynel813]

*how dare you*!? Mcgonnagal is a nice old lady. And in the 7th one, she is definately not boring. Hence-

"The headmaster is taking a short break," Mrs. McGonagal said while motioning to a snape shaped hole in the window.

Why is all this stuff about the sixth one?! It's like this thread was frozen 3 years ago!