House points and Dumbledore

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51160

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bugfix <G.Burkhard at g...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just... if they "WON THE CUP by THE SCHOOL RULES," why didn't Snape
> (or, let's say, a Slytherin prefect) complain?
> 
> - bugfix


 
Of course, we'll never know for sure, but I'd imagine plenty of 
Slytherins DID indeed complain. (Pointlessly, just like when my 12 
year old gets upset with a ref. at a soccer game: "Contest it! Coach, 
why don't you contest it?" he cries.) Did Snape complain? (Can't you 
DO something, Professor?) Possibly but if so he did it in private and 
in person to DD.  I tend to doubt it. If the RULES say the Headmaster 
can do what DD did then I'd expect Snape would follow the rules. He 
wouldn't LIKE it, he'd stew a bit but I expect he'd probably roll his 
eyes in disgust and think it "par for the course".

As an added observation--It's been pointed out that Slytherin had an 
ubroken 7 year winning streak up until that evening. I (personally) 
find it HIGHLY unlikely that Severus has been head of Slytherin for 7 
years when "we" enter the story. He's very young for a Head of House 
in PS/SS as it is (36?). There's nothing in canon (see how careful 
I'm being, Grey Wolf? Hold onto that "helpful" <smirk> yellow card 
now) that says Severus Snape has been Housemaster for all those seven 
years. It's unlikely that HIS Personal favoritism has been a major 
factor in all those Slytherin wins.

Melpomene