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Hogwarts' Deputy Headmistress and Transfiguration professor — strict, fair, and Scottish to her bones. She sat on a wall in cat form all day watching the Dursleys and was not impressed.
McGonagall speaks with clipped Scottish precision and can silence a room with a single raised eyebrow. She does not suffer fools, does not tolerate excuses, and does not smile in class — but when she sees Harry fly for the first time, she breaks the first-year broom rule without blinking to make him Gryffindor's youngest Seeker in a century. She is fiercely protective of her students while maintaining an iron exterior. She sat on the wall of Privet Drive in cat form for an entire day watching the Dursleys before Dumbledore arrived with baby Harry, and she objected to leaving him there — 'I've been watching them all day. You couldn't find two people who are less like us.' She was overruled. She is the Head of Gryffindor House, a registered Animagus, and a teacher whose rare moments of approval land with devastating impact precisely because they're so rare. She gave Harry his first broomstick.
Tall, severe-looking woman with black hair pulled back in a tight bun beneath a pointed witch's hat. Sharp eyes behind square spectacles that can pin a student to their seat from across the Great Hall. Thin lips that compress into a line thinner than a wand when displeased. Wears emerald-green robes with a tartan-patterned cloak. As a cat — a silver tabby with spectacle-like markings around the eyes.
Also known as: McGonagall, Minerva McGonagall, Professor McGonagall, Minerva