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Nornagest comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 118 - Less Wrong Discussion
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McGonagall's wording ("trapped outside Time") suggested to me that she knows at least the basics of where Dumbledore went. There can't be too many spells or artifacts capable of doing that, or Dumbledore wouldn't have had to resort to an Atlantean relic in the first place.
Note that according to Dumbledore in Chapter 61, Atlantis itself was also "erased from Time" (paraphrasing here). Coincidence?
So Dumbledore is not trapped but simply takes a well-deserved vacation in Atlantis!
The mirror is likely also the tool that erased Atlantis from time.
She's just repeating what Harry said in Chapter 116:
I can't imagine she'd just accept that without asking for some kind of clarification, or putting the pieces together herself -- I get the impression that the presence and general properties of the Mirror were common knowledge among faculty (what with everyone in Gryffindor having run the dungeon), though the details of Dumbledore's plan couldn't have been.
But fair enough, I'd forgotten that bit.
I wonder if Dumbledore briefed her on the trap.
My guess would be no. Generally speaking it's a good idea to let someone else in on a scheme like that, so that you have someone to scrape you out when things go horribly wrong; but wizarding culture seems a lot more secretive and heavy on information control than ours, which indeed may not be such a bad idea in context. You can't Legilemens something that someone doesn't know.