Minerva McGonagall
Dame Minerva McGonagall (a.k.a. Professor McGonagall, McGonagall, Professor Minerva McGonagall)
I hope I did at least some justice to Maggie Smith with this version of the character she embodied more than just brilliantly in the films. No one else will ever be able to do that again, never.
Thank you, Maggie Smith, for everything. Rest peacefully in paradise, Maggie Smith. Life is a journey and your life is one to be remembered and honored.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Minerva McGonagall is a tall, rather severe-looking, and "sprightly" fiftysix-year-old woman. She had black hair which was rarely let down, and the majority of the time was combed back into a tight bun. In her youth, Minerva was described to not be as beautiful as her mother, but she is still rather pretty according to her picture in that age.
Facial Features
Minerva always had a very prim expression. She also was known for her mouth to become very thin whenever she was angry.
Special abilities
Magical Mastery: Minerva is an exceptionally powerful and talented witch, having inherited such talent from her mother and great-grandmother. She achieved top grades in her O.W.Ls and N.E.W.Ts when she was at Hogwarts, being quickly recognised as the most outstanding student of her year, with a particular talent for Transfiguration. As an adult, Minerva displays her tremendous skills and powers by successfully becoming the Head of Transfiguration, Deputy Headmistress, and Headmistress at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She has extremely advanced magical knowledge, proving herself capable time and time again of mastering and performing highly advanced and difficult spells. Her duelling skills are also exceptional, for she faced some of the greatest magical talent of the age and lived to tell the tale.
Wandless and Nonverbal Magic: Minerva is shown to be extremely skilful at non-verbal magic for a wide variety of spells, especially transfiguration spells and charms which she can perform with just a wave of her wand. This is a testament to her formidable magical skills, as both these branches of magic are difficult to begin with not to mention to do them non verbally which requirs intense concentration and focus. She can even perform certain spells intentionally without her wand.
Duelling: Minerva is an immensely skillful duellist.
Transfiguration: Minerva was taught Transfiguration by Albus Dumbledore, showing an unusually high level of talent in the subject even at a young age. Her record was so impressive that upon finishing her seventh year, she was awarded the "Most Promising Newcomer Award" by Transfiguration Today. Upon returning to Hogwarts to teach, she was offered a job as Professor of Transfiguration, under Head of Department, Albus Dumbledore. Her mastery, skill and power in this immensely difficult branch of magic makes her one of the greatest masters of this magic until this day.
Phasing: Minerva can phase in and out of tiger form.
Regeneration: Minerva has a powerful regenerative healing factor. This allows her to heal at an abnormal rate, faster than any human being can. Small cuts and minor injuries heal within seconds while larger, more damaging injuries, such as broken bones, blood loss, and vampire venom infection seem to heal within minutes.
High Body Temperature: Minerva has a constant body temperature of about 110° degrees to withstand severe cold weather. This high body heat also allows her to survive in very hot weather, making it hard for her bodies to overheat. This high body temperature is very useful in combat, as it makes it extremely hard for vampires to harm her because they are extremely sensitive to heat. This temperature also prevents frequent illness, by killing any potential pathogens he comes into contact with before he can become ill.
Natural Enhancements: Minerva has superhuman strength in both tiger and human form, though she is at her peak only while in tiger form. In tiger form, she possesses supernatural speed, capable of running over 100 miles per hour. In human form she is notably faster than any human being, but still not nearly as fast as she is in her tiger form. In battle, she is very capable of handling her opponents. Minerva also has greater endurance than a human.
Claws and Fangs: Minerva has powerful claws and is able to cut through solid walls. Her fangs can tear human flesh and can rip out a human heart right out of their chest cavity. She is also able to transform just her claws without transforming fully.
Super Senses: Minerva possesses heightened, animal senses; akin to actual tigers, she is able to see with greater clarity than Humans, even in darkness, and her senses of smell and hearing is also equally enhanced. She is capable of using her sense of smell to track targets.
Enhanced Agility: Minerva possessees enhanced speed and agility, far greater than any human. This enables her to perform leaps across incredible heights and distances, and even scale vertical surfaces. Her agility also allows her to easily and rapidly run, jump, sprint and climb.
Invulnerability: Minerva cannot be killed by most conventional means and weapons, however, certain supernatural weapons, as well as silver, can kill her. She can also be killed by methods decapitation, dismemberment, as well as certain supernatural beings.
Charms: Minerva is shown to be incredibly skilled in charm-work. She is effortlessly capable of performing many simple everyday charms non-verbally without fail, such as the Fire-Making Spell, Mending Charm, Wand-Lighting Charm, Freezing Spell, Disarming Charm, Summoning Charm and Levitation Charm. She is also able to successfully teach her students various charms related to transfiguration such as the Colour Change Charm, Mending Charm, Hardening Charm, Softening Charm Bird-Conjuring Charm and Revelio Charm in her classes. Minerva had mastered the Patronus Charm, being able to create a powerful corporeal Patronus in the form of a cat, being the only person seen to cast three Patronuses at once. Many wizards and witches alike are unable to produce one Patronus whilst saying the incantation, further evidence of Minerva's world class ability. She also is able to use her Patronus as a means of communication, as taught to her by Dumbledore.
Defence Against the Dark Arts: Minerva is exceptionally experienced and accomplished in defensive magic as she fought in the two wizarding wars and survived, having defeated powerful dark wizards and witches in process. She is able to teach how to greatly increase the strength of the Protection Charm.
Dark Arts: Whilst she does not practise the Dark Arts, Minerva is surprisingly capable in the field. She seemed to have no trouble performing standard dark charms, such as the spell Oscausi on the girl who had had it cast previously on her.
Elemental Magic Aptitude: Much like her mentor, Dumbledore, Minerva seems to be exceptionally capable with manipulating fire.
Flying: During her school years at Hogwarts, Minerva was a skilful player of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. However, while playing, she suffered a number of serious injuries such as a concussion and broken bones that forced her to give up playing. It is highly possible that the Slytherin Quidditch team had cheated in the process.
Healing Magic: Minerva is highly skilled at many kinds of Healing magic, including spells and potions. She is skilled enough that, when Poppy Pomfrey went on holiday, Minerva took over running the Hospital Wing. She additionally had an understanding of medical practice techniques, as she was able to successfully employ a triage system during a period of large student influx into the Hospital Wing.
Potions: Minerva has very advanced abilities in brewing potions and she has shown her superior talent in potion-making. She is also able to brew basic Healing Potions with ease.
Study of Ancient Runes: Minerva is highly proficient and well versed in the study of Ancient Runes or Runology, being able to understand and translate complex runic scriptures, alphabets and symbols correctly, often using the help of a highly useful and practical Rune Dictionary.
Intellectual Giftedness: McGonagall is an incredibly wise, observant, and intelligent witch. She was once given the option to become a Ravenclaw by the Sorting Hat, though she turned it down in preference for Gryffindor, with her officially becoming a known Hatstall. Minerva's strategical-sense and deduction skills, along with her cautious nature, were shown several times.
Leadership Skills: Minerva is an exceptionally effective leader, being able to take charge in any situation within minutes. During the long absences of Dumbledore, she was the one to step in to fill his shoes.
Teaching Skills: Being the Head of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, Minerva is an extremely skilled and efficient teacher during her time in this position and is one of the few professors at Hogwarts who could keep a class quiet with minimal effort as a result of her strict nature, making her one of the most respected teachers at Hogwarts.
Wizard's Chess: Minerva was a skilled player of Wizards' Chess, and enjoyed playing the game with others, along with giving tips.
Apparel & Accessories
Minerva often wears emerald green robes or her favourite tartan pattern. She wears square spectacles that matched the markings around the eyes of her Patronus: a silver tabby cat. She also wears a pointed hat cocked to one side. As Minerva was a fan of tartan print and would often wear it to Quidditch games along with a woolly hat covering her ears.
Specialized Equipment
Wand: Minerva's wand is 9½", fir, and had a dragon heartstring core. The wand was well suited to Transfiguration, proven by its owner, who was a teacher of the subject and an Shifter.
Self-Playing Harp: Minerva owned an enchanted harp, that could play by itself.
Chess Sets: Minerva McGonagall, as an avid Wizard's Chess player, owned several different chess sets.
Mental characteristics
Gender Identity
Cisgender
Sexuality
Heterosexual
Education
Minerva attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Gryffindor House, but it took the Sorting Hat five and a half minutes to decide if she was Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, which made her a Hatstall. During her seventh year, she was appointed Head Girl.
Employment
The Mentor for Shapeshifting and Magic of the Monster Hunter Guild, Head of Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Deputy Headmistress at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Intellectual Characteristics
Honest, Practical, Calm, Dependable, Logical, Realistic, Stubborn, Conscientious, Decisive, Insensitive, Tends to blame herself, Planner, Loyal, Orderly, Responsibility, Structured
Social
Hobbies & Pets
Hornbill: This male hornbill is owned by Professor McGonagall. She uses the bird to demonstrate the spell Vera Verto, in front of her second-years' classes.
Current Location
Species
Age
56
Date of Birth
4th of Onirodrago 1450
Birthplace
The Urbane Jungle
Children
Current Residence
Main Hall of the Monster Hunter Guild at the new Village of York
Pronouns
she/her
Sex
Female
Gender
Woman
Presentation
Feminine
Eyes
Green
Hair
long, grey, few black stands, curly
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
light
Height
1.76 m
Weight
53 kg
Quotes & Catchphrases
“I’ve always wanted to use that spell!”
“If you die, you need not hand it in.”
“I will not have you behaving like a babbling bumbling band of baboons!”
"Jason is a boy, not a piece of meat!"
"Welcome to Hogwarts!"
"Have a biscuit, Jim."
"You see, honorable as your intentions were, you too were out of bed after hours."
"It’s high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she’s got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have."
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations
Character Prototype
Maggie Smith (She is and will always be the best Minerva McGonagall we ever had, rest peacefully in paradise)
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