[HPforGrownups] Re: House points and Dumbledore

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 51135


--- "pippin_999 <foxmoth at qnet.com>" <foxmoth at qnet.com>
wrote:
 in Rowling, the situation at the end of
> PS/SS is more 
> complicated than it appears to be. Harry's team is
> not in last 
> place  because of the points  lost in saving
> Norbert. It is in last 
> place because he "missed the last Quidditch
> match--we were 
> steamrollered by Ravenclaw without you." 
> 
snip

>  If Harry had played against Ravenclaw, he could
> have easily 
> won the 160 points needed to beat Slytherin, and
> Slytherin 
> knows this. Still, they not only cling to their
> false victory
> (instead of offering to cede the Cup, as Cedric
> offered to cede 
> the Tri-wizard Cup to Harry), they glory in it.
> 
>  That's why they are made to  lose in such a
> humiliating way. If 
> the seventh-year Slytherins did not see this, it can
> only be 
> because they are already focused on "their powers
> and their 
> pleasures" rather than "their rights and their
> freedom" -- They 
> have already chosen their side, and it isn't
> Dumbledore's.
> 
> I suspect it's only us grown-ups who need to assure
> ourselves 
> that  Slytherin *really* deserved defeat. Children
> know a moral 
> illustration when they see one, and are quite happy
> to see the 
> good triumph and the bad punished. 
> 
> Pippin


There is no proof that Gryffindor would've beat
Ravenclaw by that amount.  It's pure speculation. 
Slytherin is supposed to cede points (or victory) on
the basis of what *might* have happened?



Rebecca

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