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When [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peeves|Peeves]] chases Umbridge from the school, Professor McGonagall is upset because she unable to get outside to cheer Peeves on without her walking stick, which Peeves is using.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Books/Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]] ===
At the beginning of the year, Professor McGonagall hands out timetables to the sixth-year students. The process is complicated because the courses that students can take are limited by their O.W.L. resultssresults. Hermione gets her courses straight away. Neville cannot take [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Transfiguration|Transfiguration]] with only an Acceptable O.W.L. as she fears that he may be unable to cope with the coursework, but his [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Charms|Charms]] grade is high enough for that course with an 'Exceeds Expectations'. While Neville is reluctant, saying that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Augusta Longbottom|his grandmother]] believes Charms is a soft option, McGonagall comments that Augusta having failed her Charms O.W.L. is no reason for her to argue against it. She then tells Neville that it is high time Augusta appreciated her grandson for what he already was rather than what she wants him to be.
McGonagall informs [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Parvati Patil|Parvati Patil]] that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Firenze|Firenze]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Sybill Trelawney|Professor Trelawney]] are splitting [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Divination|Divination]] classes. Harry's lost hope to become an [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Auror|Auror]] revives when Professor McGonagall tells him that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Horace Slughorn|Professor Slughorn]] is happy to accept students into N.E.W.T. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Potions|Potions]] classes with an 'Exceeds Expectations' O.W.L. unlike Professor Snape. Both Harry and Ron enroll. Professor McGonagall also hands Harry a list with prospective [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Major Events/Quidditch|Quidditch]] players for the House team.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Leanne carry a necklace that cursed [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Katie Bell|Katie Bell]] back to the school. McGonagall has Professor Snape inspect it. Harry, over Ron and Hermione's objections, states that Draco Malfoy must be involved. McGonagall says that Draco was serving detention in her office during the attack.
We see McGonagall briefly in the Quidditch match following Ron's birthday. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Luna Lovegood|Luna Lovegood]] is commentating, and while the school seems vastly amused by her announcements, McGonagall is heard correcting her several times.
When Harry, defending himself against Draco, uses [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Sectumsempra|Sectumsempra]], Snape gives him detention every Saturday for the remainder of the year. It is mentioned that McGonagall agrees with Snape's setting this amount of detention.
At the end of the book, McGonagall battles Death Eaters in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Major Events/Tower Battle (Hogwarts)|Battle of the Astronomy Tower]], and succeeds in defeatingdefeats Amycus and Alecto Carrow at the same time, sending powerful blasts after them, showing she had fully recovered from the attack by Aurors. After the battle, she is in the Hospital Wing after Dumbledore's death while they figure out what had happened. She is so shocked upon hearing that Dumbledore was killed by Snape, that Madam Pomfrey conjures her a chair. She said that Dumbledore had always said he trusted Snape, for good reason. Harry says that he knows the reason Dumbledore trusted Snape: Snape had carried the prophecy about Harry to Voldemort, and then repented of that to Dumbledore. McGonagall blames herself for sending Professor Flitwick to fetch Snape.
McGonagall reports that when Dumbledore and Harry left for the sea cave, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Bill Weasley|Bill Weasley]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Remus Lupin|Lupin]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Nymphadora Tonks|Tonks]] had been on patrol. Harry tells McGonagall that the Death Eaters entered through the linked [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Magic/Disappearing Cabinets|Vanishing Cabinets]] in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Places/Room of Requirement|Room of Requirement]].
McGonagall, as acting Headmaster, must make decisions about the school's future. She summons the other heads of Houses, Professor Flitwick, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter{{BOOKNAME}}/Characters/Pomona Sprout|Professor Sprout]], and Professor Slughorn to meet in the Headmaster's office; she also asks Harry and Hagrid. There, under Dumbledore's newly-present portrait, before the others arrive, McGonagall asks Harry what he and Dumbledore had been doing. Harry demurs, saying that he had been instructed to keep their activities secret, and Dumbledore had not said he should stop following his orders if he died. McGonagall and the other teachers decide the school should remain open, but McGonagall asks if the students should be sent home early. Harry points out that many will want to stay for Dumbledore's funeral. The Hogwarts Express is scheduled for the day after the funeral. Seeing the Minister for Magic approaching the school with a delegation, McGonagall quickly dismisses Harry.
McGonagall is present at the funeral, but we do not speak with her.
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