wizard punishment/Squibs/ApparateatHogwarts/underageMagicUser/#students/Sept1

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70036

The debaters so far: 

> > << What Malfoy did was wrong. Letting Malfoy get away with what 
he did would be wrong. Punishing him was not wrong. Think of it as 
> > detention: Malfoy was detained for a couple of minutes in a 
ferret's body. >>
> > 
> > Detention is not supposed to include being bounced hard from 
ceiling to floor so as to squeak in pain.
> 
> Presumably Malfoy still had his wand pointed at Harry, and was 
> about to zap him again when he was ferretized.  Would it have 
> been acceptable for Moody to have used Expelliarmus and blasted 
> Malfoy across the room?   Or to have Stupefied him?  Those would 
> probably have hurt more.


Again, Moody wasn't a teacher. He was a Death Eater who had an entire 
agenda that has to be considered in this.

1) He hated the DEs who got away and Draco is the son of a DE.

2) He wanted to make Harry and friends trust and like him.

3) He wanted to keep Harry safe until the end and having Draco nearly 
get him probably infuriated Crouch Jr.

It just seems a little off-base to compare these incidents on a 
strictly teaching and student-relation level, knowing what we now 
know about Moody.

Now, if Snape's treatment of Hermione, and general treatment of 
Neville, is revealed to be part of his own agenda -- such as 
maintaining his "street cred" with the Slytherins -- then his actions 
will of course have to be re-evaluated.

Darrin
-- Slytherin Street Cred (S.S.C) would be an OK band name.