Annoyingly, as much as I would like it not to be. It is Professor Minerva McGonagall in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and it is a plot hole that cannot be fixed.
Before Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald came out in theatres we learned about Professor McGonagall. From that moment on, we wondered how she could be in the movie. The timeline didn’t fit. Now that the movie is out, it can be said, for certain, that it is Professor Minerva McGonagall and it is a plot hole.
Now if you have already seen the movie, you will know that McGonagall doesn’t appear that much. At best, a grand total of 5 minutes. We see the young Professor at Hogwarts, and she is Professor at this point, not a student or anything, teaching alongside Professor Dumbledore.
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It’s certainly a nice throwback to the Harry Potter franchise, but the timeline just doesn’t make sense. McGonagall hadn’t even been born yet.
However, there was the suggestion that it’s not “Minerva McGonagall” as the movie only refers to her as McGonagall. The idea is that it could be her mother or some other distant relation.
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However, the official Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay debunks that theory. As it has her listed as Professor Minerva McGonagall. Also, when it comes to her extended family, her father carries the name McGonagall and he is a muggle, and her mother is called Isobel. So it really does seem that it is Professor Minerva McGonagall and therefore a plot hole.
The only way this is not a plot hole is if the original information is not canon, which is possible at a stretch. Another possibility is there is going to be some insane, but logical, explanation that none of us can see right now, but J.K. Rowling will explain come the end of the fifth installment of the Fantastic Beasts movies.
But just taking a quick glance at how it is all going. It is a plot hole.
What do you think? Where do you stand on all of this? Is it a huge plot hole? Do you believe there is an explanation somewhere? Drop a comment below with your thoughts.