Ah, I see. I was also working on the assumption that McGonagall was correct; no reason Dumbledore couldn’t say he was leaving, head to his office, sit back, and watch.
If it was him and he wanted Hermione to die, then he also had an excellent excuse to watch the battle with wards without acting on it, namely that he supposedly timeturned back after the fact and couldn’t change anything.
Ah, I see. I was also working on the assumption that McGonagall was correct; no reason Dumbledore couldn’t say he was leaving, head to his office, sit back, and watch.
If it was him and he wanted Hermione to die, then he also had an excellent excuse to watch the battle with wards without acting on it, namely that he supposedly timeturned back after the fact and couldn’t change anything.