David Lynch to open Mulholland Drive-style nightclub in Paris.

David Lynch to open Mulholland Drive-style nightclub in Paris.

Time to invest in red draperies.

I hope Julee Cruise or Rebekkah Del Rio opens it.

I just noticed M McGonagle on the same quidditch plaque as James Potter. Is that in the books that Minerva and James were on the same team?

I think that was a plaque for past Gryffindor seekers, right? Or maybe just seekers overall.

Ohh. I thought they were all one team and James' name was most prominent because he was the seeker.

Minerva and James were not even remotely the same age.

James and Lily would have finished in the early to mid 80s, right? And I've read fanfic that had Minerva finishing either right before or during WWII, which made sense to me.

Here we go:

Minerva attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as a pupil from 1937 to 1944. This would mean that McGonagall was studying as a pupil in the year above Tom Riddle. She was Sorted into Gryffindor House, of which she would later serve as Head in her later life. McGonagall presumably achieved an Outstanding or Exceeds Expectations in Transfiguration, which was taught by Albus Dumbledore, as she would later go on to teach the subject.

She graduated in '44 and returned to teach in '56. So there are twelve missing years in there.

In 1981, baby Harry Potter defeated Lord Voldemort in his family home at Godric's Hollow, his parents James Potter and Lily Evans (both members of the Order of the Phoenix) were killed whilst protecting their son from harm.

So James and Lilly and Snape and the Marauders were students in the 70s.

So Minerva, Riddle and Hagrid and Moaning Myrtle were all classmates, though not in the same class. When Dumbledore was a Transfiguration teacher.

I know there's a lot of Marauders fic but I wonder if there's much about this generation.

I've read some good fic with Minerva and others from Hogwarts fighting in Europe after D-Day against Grindelwald and his supporters--I'll have to see if I can find it.

(I've actually considered writing one that would have only tangetially dealt with Dumbledore at this time. It would have been focused on Grindelwald and would have also tied in the Holocaust, which is why I'm really leery about going there. Jewish wizards would have had it really bad on the continent during this period, between Grindelwald and Hitler.)

Molly and Arthur Weasley started at Hogwarts in the early sixties. Lucius Malfoy overlapped with them as he arrived in the mid sixties with Narcissa (and Bellatrix?), and then Lucius was a prefect when Snape arrived. Molly's two younger brothers who were killed as members of the original Order of the Phoenix were also probably close in age to Lucius, then. Lucius was also in the Slug Club when Slughorn was potions master.

I expect many of the bad guys who take over the Ministry in the later books were originally in Slytherin house in the sixties.