every year, some joker gets mcgonagall some cat toys as a present
every so often, when she’s feeling stressed, she opens the drawer that she secretly keeps them in, takes out the toys and puts them all over the floor, locks her office door and just goes wild
The door swung open at once. A tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes stood there. She had a very stern face and Harry’s first thought was that this was not someone to cross. – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Minerva McGonagall: Well, usually when a person shakes their head, they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans
Minerva McGonagall: I wonder, how you can expect to gain an idea of my usual teaching methods if you continue to interrupt me? You see, I do not generally permit people to talk when I am talking.
Minerva McGonagall: I should have made my meaning plainer. He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher.
Minerva McGonagall: Are you quite sure you wouldn’t like a cough drop, Dolores?
do you think after Ron and Hermione got out of the trapdoor and raised the alarm and were being patched up in the hospital wing
do you think they were given the most royal proud mama smackdown by McGonagall like “ how DARE you infiltrate a death maze you are ELEVEN and miss granger how on earth did you solve my chessboard i”
and hermione interjected like “oh professor it wasn’t me. i’m useless at chess. it was ron.”
and McGonagall turned to look at Ron Weasley in total amazement at this 11 yr old kid who had been pretty ordinary in all her classes but had apparently beaten her in death chess and he just shrugged like “rookie mistakes, professor. you made some rookie mistakes.”
