Slytherin's winning streak (was; House Points and Dumbledore)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 51278

Y'know. I wonder if we may not have been handed a clue here.

Slytherin had been on a winning streak, taking the House Cup for the past six 
years. Right up to Harry's arrival at Hogwarts. And probably the Quidditich 
Cup as well. (Harry was immediately informed that Gryffandor had't won the QC 
since Charlie was on the team, seven years ago.) Once Charlie Weasley 
finished school, I don't think the Puff's excellent teamwork, the Claw's 
individualistic cleverness or the Gryff's heroics would have been a match for 
the Slyth's focused ruthlessness on the pitch. We've already had it confirmed 
that winning the Quidditch Cup gives a House a decided advantage towards 
taking the House Cup as well. All that is needed is to make sure that the 
points won by the team aren't offset by too many points lost by the rest of 
the House -- and that members of other Houses don't make up the difference by 
winning too many additional House points in other areas. Now did Slytherin 
simply get a particularly pronising batch of first years at that point, and 
the winning streak has simply followed their careers, or did Slytherin House 
get some other advantage at that point?

Well, we already know who seems to live to strip house points off everyone 
but the Slytherins. And, while he may perhaps be a demon for detentions, 
inside the House itself, he rarely strips a point off one of them if he can 
help it. Could we have just been handed the information of exactly when Snape 
became head of Slytherin? (May have been on staff as a teacher prior to that, 
but not as a Head of House.) 

I think *I'm* going to be watching for any other bits of information as to 
whether anything much was going on at Hogwarts around, say, 1985 or so over 
the next few books...

For the record, I think that Quidditch-earned House points are awarded on an 
individual basis to players of BOTH teams, PLUS a set number of bonus points 
to the House of the winning team. Lee Jordan (and any othe of the Quidditch 
Comentators) may be either awarded or docked House points for his comentary 
as well.

(And, imho, the winning points in PS/SS should have been awarded the morning 
after the trio went into the Chamber, with an "explanation forthcomming" 
announcement.) (Oh. Well. It *was* her first book...)

-JOdel


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