Points System abuse by teachers (Snape)

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--- 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.

Personally, I have always assumed that it wasn't too badly biased--
since we don't see Snape roaming around the corridor in the last week 
of term, looking for Gryffindors to take points off.