A lovely character of Harry Potter films, Minerva McGonagall is the soul of Hogwarts. Sometimes severe, but just, she is still inclined to help students (especially Harry, Ron and Hermione), and protect them, for example in the face of the tyranny established by the inquisitor Dolores Umbrage in The order of the Phoenix. During the battle of Hogwarts, she does not hesitate to invoke immense statues to defend the castle, through one of the rare comic springs of the film Deathly relics. If she is very often confined to maintaining the school on foot against all odds, her character is much more fleshed out in the books dedicated to the sorcerer’s apprentice. Back on five anecdotes which are known only by those who have read the works of JK Rowling and followers of the huge Pottermore database.
#5 His personal story and past are tragic
It is on the Harry Potter fans site that the past and the story of Minerva McGonagall is detailed. Where does it come from? What did she do before Hogwarts? How did she come to direct the Gryffindor house? We learn that she was born from a Muggle father and a witch mother, and lived a very complicated childhood (her mother hid her powers to her husband). When he arrived in Hogwarts, The magic choice hesitated to send it to Raveigleso much his studious nature and his brilliant student capacities stuck with the house. In Gryffindor, she excels and is the best of her promotion, obtaining the best grades in her noises and as ASPIC. She manages to become an animagi under the leadership of her teacher of metamorphosis of the time: a certain Albus Dumbledore. A completed student, she is also an excellent Quidditch player. In short, everything succeeds in his years of study, and his destiny seems to be traced.
Unfortunately, the rest of his life will look more like a long way of the cross. In love with a Muggle, she decides to run away, for fear of reproducing the same family scheme. Drown in boredom in the London offices for a post at the Ministry of Magic that does not suit her, she is finally admitted to Hogwarts as Metamorphosis professor, and Emphouse Elmpics URQUART, SON ACRIE boss the service you ministry. The man dies tragically, bitten by a poisonous tentacula after three years of marriage, plunging her into extreme solitude. She will never find love, and will devote herself entirely to her post, as well as to her missions for the order of the Phoenix (although she is not part of it), during the First Wizard War.
#4 How she became animagi
In the film Harry Potter at the school of wizardsProfessor McGonagall is presented in the guise of a cat. By an animation that has aged today, she metamorphoses and resumes her features. We learn that she is an animagi, a witch capable of turning into an animal as she pleases. A status she acquired under the supervision of Dumbledore when she was a student, by hard work. Passionate about metamorphosis, she chose to acquire this power in order to be able to sneak discreetly and spy, especially during the First Wizard War, on behalf of the Aurors (for whom she secretly works). Such power which is however controlled. Unlike marauders, it is registered at the Ministry of Magic.
#3 She launches Harry’s quidditch career, but resumes her broom
As a talented Quidditch player, she is delighted to see that Harry has a natural donation for the flight and excels in the position of Attachre. It is she who secretly offers him the Nimbus 2000 During his first year. These are the books that teach us, because in the film, the recipient of the gift is never mentioned. On the other hand, she does not hesitate to confiscate the flash of fire during her third year, which she considers too fast, and too dangerous, and whose provenance worries her. As a reminder, it is Sirius Black, freshly escaped from Azkaban who sends him secretly.
#2 violently attacked, she made a stay in Ste Mangouste
Minerva McGonagall was sent to Ste Mangouste Hospital, following serious injuries. A completely forgotten passage in the films that only readers know. In The order of the Phoenix, Dolores umbrage that has become a great inquisitor at Hogwarts for the balance of the Minister of Magic. She puts them from order to school, not hesitating to harden the rules, delete any element of freedom, and to transfer certain annoying teachers and personal, such as Sybille Trelawney or Hagrid. The latter is attacked by several members of the ministry who came to arrest him. Minerva McGonagall, who tried throughout the year to protect the school and the students of Dolore Ombrage, Defends the half-manager. But she receives four amazement spells in the back. Seriously injured, she was urgently sent to the hospital for magic diseases and injuries, and is absent for several months at Hogwarts.
#1 She becomes Director of Hogwarts
She finally reached the consecration after Voldemort’s death when she finally became director of Hogwarts. A position that should have returned to him after the tragic end of Dumbledore in The Prince of Milled Bloodbut Severus Rogue was commissioned to monitor and control the school during the preparations for “Lord of darkness.”
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