Dissin' the Slyths

[Karie TGaHJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 38449

Excuse me if I'm repeating something someone has already said,
(is it safe to assume an elf will delete this if it has been said?)
and I've missed it.
I've seen many theories about the last minute points, too many
to repeat here, but I haven't seen my favorite (:.  Perhaps the
point was to show that although "Virtue is it's own reward", there
are also more tangible rewards from time to time...something that
ambitious to succeed people would likely appreciate (: .
After all, most of the time, you get points, and no one is told why
(though apparently if you _lose_ points, everyone finds out <g>),
and of course Dumbledore could have given the points earlier, but
then there wouldn't have been such a strong correlation between
the two events, and it would have looked _more_ like favoritism, i.e.
he just gave them the points so that Slytherin would lose, and there
wouldn't be any connection for the Slytherins, particularly, to see
that they meant more than that?
Just my .02 (:
Karie

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