House points and Dumbledore

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bugfix <G.Burkhard at g...> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

But they DID win it. Regardless of how, we don't know that. It's safe 
to assume that there were points awarded to Slyths by professors, 
staff and prefects who were NOT Snape. The fact is, they walked into 
the hall having WON THE CUP by THE SCHOOL RULES. Whether they'd won 
before and it was "someone else's turn" is MOOT. If DD was going to 
award extra points (as has been said here countless times already) 
and change the tally he had AMPLE time to do it before the 
decorations went up. His behaviour was deplorable. It embarrassed 
Snape (no surprise there, we soon learn that's a favored hobby of 
his), ticked off the Slytherins and must have been a terrible blow to 
the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs as well. Now--tell me what lesson 
those 7th year Slyths learned on their last day at Hogwarts again? 
Because I missed it. I can tell you they walked out of there with a 
very bitter taste in their mouths....new crop of DE's anyone?

Melpomene