Slytherin's winning streak (was; House Points and Dumbledore)

[Grey Wolf <greywolf1@jazzfree.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51352

Acire wrote:
> Actually, Slytherin *has* won the Quidditch Cup for the past seven years in PoA: "And Potter--*do* try and win, won't you? Or we'll be out of the running for the eighth year in a row, as Professor Snape was kind enough to remind me only last night..." (US Paperback, p. 248).
>

You don't know that - that quote only states that *Gryffindor* has been 
eliminated from the cup competition the last eight years - the first 
seven because they didn't have an apropiate seeker, most probably, and 
the eighth because Harry was too hurt to play. Since there are three 
other teams and we know that the Slytherin team is not particularly 
good (until they got the Nimbus 2001, I mean), it is open to 
speculation who won those competitions. My money is that Ravenclaw 
must've won a few, at least. I think that if Slytherin had one all of 
them, Snape would've spelled it out by now.

> Gryffendor(sp?) has won the House Cup since Harry's first year. They just haven't won the Quidditch Cup. 
> 
> -Acire, who wants to know what she has to do to be a L.O.O.N., and is sorry if she has overstepped her boundaries and quoted something wrongly.

To be a LOON you have to be nominated and seconded, AFAIK. Two things, 
however, don't help: proposing yourself seems to be the worst form of 
bad manners and misspelling Gryffindor isn't going to raise sympathies. 
Besides, being a LOON is not easy - I myself must be close to being 
one, but after more than a year in the list I haven't yet been 
nominated.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf