Character: Minerva McGonagall

- Wonderful! So you've found the entrance by violating - I will add - in an egregious way, a hundred school rules. But how did you get out of there alive, Potter? - McGonagall burned with curiosity.

“You’ll be petrified on a cold brick all day,” said Professor McGonagall gruffly.

Thank you Mr. Potter. If you were already in any department, I would deduct so many points that even your grandchildren would continue to lose the School Cup.

Muggle scientists have found that people are always overly optimistic: they say that some process will take two days, but in fact it takes ten, or they say - two months, and it takes more than thirty-five years. Or, for example, a survey of students was conducted, by what date they are 50%, 75% and 99% sure that they will complete their homework. And only 13%, 19% and 45% of them complete it by the specified time. Scientists have discovered the cause. The subjects were asked to describe the ideal and typical scenarios. And the resulting descriptions were almost identical. If you ask a person to plan something for the future, then he usually, imagining the most likely course of events, forgets about the possibility of mistakes or surprises. Most of the subjects did not finish the work by the deadline of which they were 99% sure, so that the actual results were worse than even the worst-case scenario. This phenomenon is called a "planning error," and the best way to avoid it is to consider how long it took to do any work in the past. That is, to look at the process from the outside. If you're taking on something for the first time and there's a possibility of failure, you have to be very, very, very pessimistic. So pessimistic that the results accurately exceed expectations. I, for one, work hard to present a grim picture of one of my classmates being bitten by a monster, but it could actually happen that the surviving Death Eaters attack the school to grab me. It's good that...
"Enough is enough," McGonagall interrupted.
Harry fell silent. He was just going to add that they at least knew that the Dark Lord wouldn't attack because he was dead.

- One of my classmates was bitten by a creepy monster, and I am in a mad rush to rummage in my wallet, trying to find something that can help her, she looks at me sadly and, taking her last breath, says: “Why were you not ready? " She is dying, and I understand that I will never be forgiven ...

Only the difference between truth and lie, bravery and cowardice, ' said Professor McGonagall, turning pale. - In General, just that the difference, which you and your sister do not understand. But there is one thing you will have to understand. You will not be able to blame their eternal stupidity on the Hogwarts students. I will not allow it!

May I ask, why not?
- Once I lived the stone. He died.

- Magic.
- Magic for this is not enough. It needs to be God!
McGonagall blinked:
- So I still have no called.

Bravery does not justify stupidity.

- Miss Granger, next time be careful, - still spoke Professor McGonagall before leaving.
- Sure, Professor, ' she promised Hermione. - If in the safest school in Britain to meet some monster, promise to be very very careful.

- I'll go to the potions lesson, Professor McGonagall.
- Take Weasley with you, and that he is satisfied.

It is time for Your grandmother, Longbottom, proud of this grandson, what it is, not as it in her opinion should be.

You look lovely, Potter. So don't be mad at me if I don't release you from homework. But no doubt, in the event of death, it's not necessary.

- This scar will stay with him for life.
- You after all may have something to do with it, Dumbledore?
Even if I could, I would not. Scars can do a good job. I, for example, has a scar above his left knee, which is a completely accurate diagram of the London underground.