Points System abuse by teachers (Snape)

[rbwood at Yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27450

I agree...although it is an effective writing method for us to 
constantly hate Snape.  My assumption is that Dumbledore trusts his 
teachers.  

And for the most part that trust is founded.

If professor Sprout took Snape's approach, Hufflepuff might be in the 
running more.  :-)

r

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> You know, I kind of think that one big weakness of the "points for 
houses"
> system that Hogwarts uses is that it lays itself open to abuse by 
teachers,
> and that Snape in particular is guilty of this sort of abuse.  When 
he hands
> out unearned points to Slytherins in Potions classes and elsewhere, 
he is
> IMO acting unethically.  Professor McGonagal is much more ethical, 
as when
> she takes fifty points off Gryffindor, her own house, when the Boy 
Who Lived
> becomes The Boy Who Got Caught in PS/SS.
> 
> I mean, can you imagine what would've happened if Gilderoy Lockhart 
(that
> preening git) had been in charge of a House?