[HPforGrownups] Re: Character: Minerva McGonagall

[Sara Metz]

No: HPFGUIDX 9229



On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:13:04 -0000 "Minnesota Girlie"
<MinnesotaGirlie7 at aol.com> writes:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
> 
> > 4) Continuing the theme from question 1, what are possible reasons 
> 
> for
> > McGonagall not punishing Harry -- indeed, rewarding him -- for 
> flying
> > unsupervised in PS? Hermione even thinks that this is inconsistent 
> 
> with
> > McGonagall in general. Again, does this have any greater 
> significance than a
> > Good Plot Device?
> 
> She doesn't want Harry to leave Hogwarts, much like Fudge does not
> and 
> Dumbledore does not. Besides, as you pointed out with her having a 
> certain soft-spot when it comes to Harry's hard-knock life living
> with 
> the Dursleys, I bet she wouldn't be able to stand the thought of
> Harry 
> having to spend the rest of his life as a Muggle.
> 
I actually think that it's because the Gryffindors hadn't won the
Quidditch cup in several years; in SS, McGonagall mentions to Harry and
Wood that the Gryffindor team the previous year was flattened by the
Slytherins and she "couldn't look Severus Snape in the face for weeks."
(Ch. 9) Even though she's a stickler for the rules, and usually never
favors the Gryffindors above the other students, (Harry says in SS, "Wish
she'd favor us." after Ron comments on Snape's always favoring the
Slytherins) I think her pride probably got the better of her. After all,
we all know how annoying Snape can be; I'm sure nobody could resist the
urge to one-up him somehow. In this case, it's by having a better
Quidditch team that will win.

Sara

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