Professor Minerva McGonagall was born 1925 October 4, she is the Transfiguration professor and Deputy Headmistress at Hogwarts.

Your Birthday is a special day, one that’s just for you, a time for doing everything, you have always wanted to do … so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Professor McGonagall!

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But we must also remember that behind that amazing character is a wonderful woman. Last year actress Maggie Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer, which she is still fighting ’til the day.

“Dame Maggie Smith: A bad case of stage fright”

entertainment.timesonline.co.uk: Once advising Michael Palin that sarcasm didn’t suit him, Dame Maggie Smith described herself as “the acid queen”. She rarely gives interviews and a mysterious, intimidating aura has long surrounded her. You sense she wouldn’t suffer fools, in fact anyone she took agin, gladly or otherwise. One theatre insider says that she requires “careful handling”.

It was reported last year that Smith, 74, was receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy for breast cancer, and when we meet on the South Bank, in London, she looks tired, a little bloodshot and embarks immediately on an impassioned rant about the dreadful traffic jam she has just endured in Waterloo. She lives in rural Sussex. I ask how she is, aware of the cancer elephant in the room. She smiles gently. “I’m OK . . . OK . . . OK.” Her voice is far from grand. She looks frail, but remains pin-sharp and funny.

She revealed that she made Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince — playing Professor Minerva McGonagall — during her cancer treatment. “I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg. (snitchseeker)

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I grew up watching the Secret Garden all was admiring her, my favorite seen in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is when she fills her glass with the leftover wine. It be sad not to see her again in more movies. Our best wishes to Maggie Smith! What do you think of all of this?