House points and Dumbledore

[Bugfix]

No: HPFGUIDX 51088


* "Steve <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>" wrote:

> It's always demoralizing when you lose. Maybe we should take the
> politically correct but totally irrational approach and make everybody
> winners, so that no one will have to be demoralized by losing. Get
> over it; Slytherin lost, they lost because their achievements were so
> pale and meaningless compared to the outstanding accomplishments of
> intellect, skill, courage, and magic by Harry, Ron, and Hermione as to
> not even rate mentioning. Slytherin should have lost 50 points for
> being so hopelessly mediocre and mundane in comparison to Harry, Ron,
> and Hermione.

Let's not forget that Slytherin won the House Cup six years in a row
before (I can't give the exact quote and page number as I currently
only have a German copy of PS available). That would mean that there
are Slytherin students who always won the cup, from their first year to
their seventh.

Yes, they must work hard to win the House Cup and it isn't easy to
achive. But as much as one must learn to work hard to win he must learn
to work hard and then to *lose* and how to live with the defeat. This
is an important lesson which the seventh year Slytherins apparently got
only on their last day in school.

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