Cat!Hermione and Madam Pomfrey (was Re: Some mistakes in ...

[bluesqueak <pipdowns@etchells0.demon.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 47889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynx412 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/6/02 4:53:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> suzchiles at p... writes:
> 
> 
> > I think it's important the Madam Pomfrey have a "no questions 
> > asked" kind ofpolicy. <Snip>
> > Remember Eloise Midgen who cursed off her own nose? I think it's 
> > better forthe students to know that they can trust Madam Pomfrey 
> > and get fixed up again quickly.

Hogwarts may well also have a policy of ignoring offenses that have 
already carried their own punishment. After all, Hermione spent 
several months in hospital. The teachers concerned may well have 
felt that was a far more effective punishment than an evening's 
detention.

As for Harry and Ron, McGonagall, later in CoS, allows Harry and Ron 
up to see Petrified!Hermione because she knows what a close 
friendship the Trio have. So, again, whichever of the Trio actually 
stole the ingredients, it may have been felt that a close friend 
being hospitalised for so long *should* have been a sufficient 
lesson in *why* those ingredients (and the Polyjuice Potion ) were 
restricted. They're dangerous.

>        There's another point to that. Just because she doesn't ask 
> questions doesn't mean she doesn't report. In GoF, Dumbledore 
> seems to know that Harry will recognize and understand the use of 
> polyjuice potion. That might also explain some of Snape's attitude 
> toward the trio. He may believe that Harry stole the stuff and 
> made the potion, then the boys gave Hermione a dose with  cat hair 
> as a prank. Given the other flaws in that little bit...what *did* 
> Crabb and Goyle say when they were released...he probably realized 
> who snuck into the Slitherin common room.
> 
>        Cheryl
> 
This is also explains Snape's attitude in GoF when he assumes that 
the boomslang skin may have been stolen by Harry - not so 
much 'Harry is guilty of everything' but more 'Harry has done this 
before'.

Pip!Squeak