Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (Nel Question - LONG)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 38350

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., heidi tandy <heidit at n...> wrote:
> 
> --- jferer <jferer at y...> wrote:
> > I can't agree that his "public humiliation" of
> > Slytherin was a mistake 
> > or a moral failing at all. It was just, as the Trio
> > had certainly done 
> > something extraordinary earing their House merit and
> > glory.
> 
> They did do something extraordinary - as did Neville
> :) - but Dumbledore had known that for days.
> Presumably, the banners hadn't even been up at mid-day
> that day. Why couldn't he have allocated the points
> beforehand? 
> 
> Of course, it was because it would've had less
> dramatic impact, and I tend to disregard this as
> something telling about Dumbledore simply because
> we're reading novels which have certain things done
> only for dramatic purpose, and other things not done
> simply for characterisation. But it was really an
> unnecessary thing to do to the Slytherins - none of
> *them* had done anything wrong in the events which
> allowed Harry to rescue the stone.


You're disregarding, I think, how the Slytherins came to be 150 
points ahead of Gryffindor in the first place...it was because of 
Draco Malfoy 's underhanded plot to catch them with Norbert. It's 
poetic justice for being a sneak.

Pippin