Minerva McGonagall

Minerva McGonagall is the Deputy Headmistress, Head of Gryffindor House and Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts. She is married to Hermione Granger.

Early life
Minerva was born to her mother Isobel in 1945, making her the current oldest Professor at Hogwarts. She grew up with her mother in a small Muggle village in the Scottish Highlands, not far from Hogwarts. Although she was close friends with some girls in the village, she was not allowed to legally hypnotize them until she started at Hogwarts and thus their relationship stayed purely platonic. She was rather socially isolated as her mother did not have much time to bring her to Witching settlements, and thus spent most of her days drifting out of a self-imposed trance and wishing for her to be old enough to go to Hogwarts.

Hogwarts
When her Hogwarts letter finally came, Minerva was overjoyed. After being sorted into Gryffindor, she spent seven years learning magic and making friends, some of which she still has today like Poppy Pomfrey and Pomona Sprout, both of whom were three years below her. When she began taking Muggle Studies in her third year, she returned over Christmas Break and hypnotized her childhood friends.

Professorship
After graduating from Hogwarts, Minerva began working as a clerk for the Ministry to pay the bills while she figured out what she wanted to do in life. Eventually, she saw an advertisement in the Daily Prophet for a Transfiguration Professor. She was hired after a successful interview, and eventually became Deputy Headmistress and Head of Gryffindor when the holders of those positions retired or were promoted. However, there was still something missing in her life, that being a lover. She tried to make up for it by catching up with her Muggle childhood friends, but they had already found love in both the Muggle and Witching worlds. In 1990 she approached her boss, who suggested looking for a Muggleborn to be in a relationship with, as the Deputy Headmistress was the one responsible for introducing them to the Witching World.

Hermione
Minerva searched for a possible partner for two summers. After over ten unsuccessful Muggleborn visits, she was considering giving up and asking Amelia to hypnotize her into accepting that she was "in love with her job", as she put it to herself. However, in July of 1991 she met the love of her life Hermione Granger when hypnotizing her and introducing her to the Witching World. Minerva declared her love to her as soon as she came out of trance for the first time, with Hermione and her mother being overjoyed at the thought. Thus, Minerva took her to her cottage for the week afterwards. After being Sorted into Gryffindor at the conclusion of that summer Hermione moved into Minerva's quarters, never having even spent a night in the Gryffindor dormitory.

1992 and 1993
In October of the following year Minerva and Hermione became friends with Isabella Patterson and Emily Wagner, Second- and First-Year students at Hogwarts, respectively. Three months later they proposed to each other after Isabella and Emily hypnotized them to do so. Four months after that they were wed, with Amelia officiating and Pomona giving them the gift of all of the wedding attendees going into trance on behalf of the Hogwarts staff. In November of that same year Minerva and Hermione competed against Isabella and Emily in an election to determine the cutest couple at Hogwarts.

Personality
Minerva is a strong and competent witch, especially when it comes to Transfiguration. A celebrated master of her field, she has been featured several times in Transfiguration Today. Rare among members of the Witching World, Minerva has suffered from mild depression in the past and attended weekly hypnosis sessions with a healer from St Mungo's for many years, only stopping when she met Hermione, however she has admitted that she was cured after the first session and only continued attending for the boost in self-confidence. In class she is rather direct with her students, although she always rewards them well when their work is done.

Relationship with Hermione
Hermione is the love of Minerva's life, and the two are almost inseparable. While some think that Minerva plays favorites with Hermione, she is extremely fair and would have given her the Prefect position or such prominent roles when helping in class if she did not think that she had earned it.