House points and Dumbledore

[sophineclaire <metal_tiara@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51104

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros <melclaros at y...>" 
<melclaros at y...> wrote:
> --- 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? 



What lesson did it teach  7th year Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs? They 
too have gone 7 years without winning. A little satisfaction that 
another house won instead? maybe, but that's a little petty too 
isn't it? How unfair to the Hufflepuffs, who were 3rd and above 
Gryffindor, to become 4th so that Gryffindor could become 1st. WHat 
about for the Ravenclaws who dropped from 2nd to 3rd for the same 
purpose. All three houses got demoted. I think it was more than just 
the Slyths who lost.

   Look, if you were in an academic competition and you school won 
the competition for the past 6 years, how would you feel if you had 
won, been given a trophy/banner, only to have it taken away from you 
in front of everyone and the basis that it was someone elses turn to 
win and the judges rigged the scores to justify the change. How 
MORTIFYING! Sure, everyone thinks it's great at first. A Superstar's 
fall from glory, but once you think on it a bit, it doesn't say much 
about the character of the judges or the fairness of the competition 
in the first place now does it?

-SophineClaire