Harry "always gets away with stuff" (Was Re: Defending Ron ?...)

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 77931

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lynda Pringle <bookhound1 at y...> 
wrote:
> Harry does get away with stuff that would result in
> expulsions of other students and it's irritating how
> he is favored.  I'm surprised that the other students
> don't complain about the inequity of the punishments
> meted out.  Of course, the punishment meted out by
> Umbridge makes up for the other times Harry got away
> with stuff.   Lynda  

As we have yet to see an expulsion other than Hagrid's (which 
involved murder), and little discussion of the mis-behaviors of most 
other students (other than Fred and George who have BELIEVED that 
they have been skirting expulsion for years, and the marauders, who 
seem to have really run amok), I think it a bit bold to say that what 
Harry has done is all that much worse than what others have done, or 
that he has not been expelled when others would have been.  After 
all, he hasn't murdered anyone.

Malfoy does rather nasty things, such as trying to ambush Harry, 
stealing things (Neville's remembrall), attempting to destroy things 
(again, Neville's remembrall) and jinxing people.  He hasn't been 
expelled, either.