McGonagall biography

On the screen, the image of a strict teacher and dean of the faculty Gryffindor was embodied by actress Maggie Smith. The story of the creation of the character is the surname McGonagall - Scottish descent, it means "dead from grief." The heroine received the name of Minerva in honor of the goddess of wisdom, called by the Greeks of Athena. In the Italian translation of the book, her surname was changed to McGranit, that is, “from the Granites” - this is how they conveyed a hint of a tough and adamant character.

The image and biography of Minerva McGonagall about the early years of the character’s biography is known mainly from additional materials. For the first time in the McGonagall saga, an experienced teacher with solid work experience in Hogwarts has already appeared. According to the canonical history described on the Pottermore website, Minerva was born in the year.

Fans calculated this date on the basis of information from the 5th book, where the date of the beginning of the teaching career of the heroine is mentioned. It is known that after graduation, young Minerva worked for 2 years in the Ministry of Magic, which also helped to calculate the age of the character. Information about the date of birth was confirmed by Joan Rowling herself, so the fans of the Harry Potter universe were very surprised to see McGonagall in the film “Fantastic Creatures: Green de Vald crimes, which unfold 8 years before the birth of a sorceress.

Having understood the mistake, the authors of the script quickly removed the Minerva on Pottermore all quotes with the mention of dates, but attentive fans did not miss the miss and criticized the writer for inaccuracy. By origin, McGonagall is a half -blood: her mother Isabelle was a sorceress, and Father Robert was Maglom. For the sake of love, Isabelle renounced the world of magicians and for many years kept her abilities secret.

True, she went outside a few years after the birth of her daughter and destroyed the relationship between the spouses, which laid out a gloomy imprint on the childhood of Minerva. At Hogwarts, the distributing hat was seriously thinking of sending the girl to Kogtevran, but in the end she stopped at the Gryffindor. Minerva demonstrated impressive abilities for magic, especially for the transfiguration, and soon became the best on the course.

With the help of Albus Dumbledore, she mastered the art of animagia and learned to turn into a cat. Rowling mentions another interesting fact: Minerva was a gambling player in Kviddich and even thought about a sports career, but in the seventh year she received severe injuries, falling from a broomstick and parted with her dream. However, the passion for the game and the trained eye on sports talents remained with her in adulthood.

According to Rowling, the heroine’s personal life, like her parents, developed unsuccessfully. After the end of Hogwarts, she went to visit her father with her mother. During the holidays in the parental house, Minerva fell in love with a neighboring young man named Dagal.

The novel developed rapidly, and 3 months later he already made her a proposal, which the girl agreed to, but after a couple of days of painful thought refused, realizing that their marriage would never become happy, because she would have to renounce her abilities, career, herself. McGonagall returned to London and plunged into work. A broken heart overshadowed her subsequent years, despite a successful career.

Dougal soon married the farmer’s daughter, and Minerva did not dare to let another person into the heart for a long time. All this time, the girl was supported by her chief Elphinstone Urhart. Passionately in love with his subordinate, he waited for her to pay attention to him. The man had to make an offer more than once before Minerva finally agreed to connect his life with him. The couple’s family life was happy, but short -lived.

Unable to endure a sad existence in an empty house, McGonagall moved to live in Hogwarts and plunged into work. She endured grief steadily, and only close friends guessed how she suffered. In Hogwarts, Minerva became a recognized professional. She saw a strict and demanding teacher and a zealous keeper of discipline, not making the slightest concessions even to students of her own faculty: in the first book, she fined the main characters for night adventures, which discarded the Gryffindor to the last place in the school competition.

McGonagall enjoyed the unconditional trust of the director and participated in his affairs, including secret ones-from the transfer of little Harry to relatives and the protection of the philosophical stone to the defense of the school from Voldemort. Despite the external severity, the teacher is often condescending and always stands up for the weak. At the time when the school is led by Dolores Ambridge, Minerva, contrary to his principles, encourages chaos, which students are satisfied with to discredit a new director.

The appearance of the heroine in the books is sparingly described: black hair, cleaned in a strict bunch, square glasses, the shape of which repeats the marks around the cat's eyes during transfiguration. In Minerva's clothes, black and emerald green colors. Minerva McGonagall in films in the film adaptations of the charismatic professor Hogwarts was played by actress Maggie Smith.Her game of critics and fans considered brilliant, but surprisingly Smith herself was not too pleased with her work, saying that she could not get used to the role of Minerva.

Perhaps she was prevented by a serious illness - during the filming of Harry Potter and Gifts of Death, Maggie was forced to fight breast cancer. She managed to achieve remission, but the long hours on the set were torment for the actress. In the film, McGonagall looks older than in a book description: at the beginning of the first book, when little Harry is left on the threshold of the Dursleys House, she is only 46 years old, and by the time of the arrival of young Potter in Hogwarts, Fiona Glaztt was played in “Fantastic creatures”.

Quotes can be turned one of you into hours so that the rest do not be late. You look great, Potter. So do not be offended by me if I do not free you from homework. But do not doubt, in case of death, it is not necessary to perform it. I’ll go to the potions lesson right now, Professor McGonagall. Take Weasley with you, otherwise it is painfully satisfied. Birth of a legend ” -“ Harry Potter.

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