Talk:Minerva McGonagall

Picture & parentage
Can we please change the picture? The picture is creepy..
 * Go ahead, if you can find a better one. John Reaves (talk) 06:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The one right bellow on the article would be much better. --Bluelantern 21:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Why are all the pictures in this article deleted?????

Iluvgracie129 15:52, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

The article says she's muggle-born but where's the evidence for this? It was never mentioned in the books (in fact, she seems to express some contempt for muggles) and I've never seen any interviews mentioning it. Metathesiophobia 18:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Another title...
She is Head of Gryffindor too...

Revert
Maybe someone with rollback powers can fix this page so it is in english again? Mafalda Hopkirk 13:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Motivation?
"McGonagall also managed to put aside her dislike of Professor Trelawney for a time, just to undercut Umbridge's authority." It has been a time since I last readed it the chapter, but I had the impression that Minerva was true in her motives and not using some kind of manipulation.

Replacement
Was any indication given e.g. in interviews, who replaced her as head of Gryffindor when she took over as headmistress after 7? Well it is AFAIK never directly stated, the information from the books suggests that a headmistress/masters is not usually the head of a house which kind of makes sense too (to try to improve impartiallity and also because it would be better if headmistresses/masters are freer to do stuff in an emergency etc) 118.92.18.114 14:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

McG's longevity
Whoever wrote in the "Background information and notes" section seems to forget that she was Stunned four times during Harry's OWLs, which may have contributed to her early retirement. OneWeirdDude 19:08, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It says that she made a full recovery.-- 19:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Biography section
Shouldn't the biography section be from an in-universe perspective? The part in the 'After the War' section concerning Rowling's statements about McGonagall's retirement are stated in the Behind the Scenes section, so in AtW shouldn't we just say that she had retired by 2017? AngelQueen 15:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)