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Minerva McGonagall
GryffindorDeputy headmistress

Minerva McGonagall

Born:
4 October 1935

Transfiguration teacher, Head of Gryffindor, and the spine of the staff. Dumbledore hired her in December 1956, while Armando Dippet was still headmaster. She leads the defence of the castle in the last battle.

Appears in

  1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

On the timeline

  1. 1956-12

    McGonagall begins teaching

    In December 1956 Dumbledore, Head of Transfiguration under Headmaster Dippet, offers Minerva McGonagall a post.
  2. After December 1956, before September 1971

    Dumbledore becomes headmaster

    Albus Dumbledore succeeds Armando Dippet. Minerva McGonagall will in time become Head of Transfiguration and deputy headmistress.
  3. 1995–1996 school year

    Umbridge takes the school

    She arrives to teach Defence, then becomes High Inquisitor. Educational Decrees pile up. The centaurs finally drive her out of the forest.
  4. 1997-09-01

    Snape is made headmaster

    Term opens under Severus Snape. The Carrows teach cruelty as a subject.
  5. 1998-05-02

    The Battle of Hogwarts

    The trio breaks into Gringotts for the cup. At the castle the diadem is destroyed, Neville kills Nagini, and fifty-odd defenders die, among them Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Colin. Harry walks into the Forest and comes back. Voldemort dies in the Great Hall on 2 May 1998.