[HPforGrownups] Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and Slytherins)

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 71318

At 11:54 PM +0100 on 07/17/2003, Kathryn Cawte wrote about Re: 
[HPforGrownups] Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and :

>I know this debate has been had before and I don't really want to get into
>it again because the two sides never get closer together and it just gets
>repetitious. But IMO Gryffindor was just 'awarded' victory at the end of PS.

I would need to reread PA/SS but I have the impression that the gap 
between Gryffindor and Slytherin was in realty much closer that the 
170 points that DD awarded at the last moment. I have the impression 
that Snape had penalized them for much of those "restored" points 
(McGonagall took 150 away herself). IOW: They had earned enough 
points already and would have only been much further ahead after the 
awarding of the points for saving the Stone.

At 04:28 AM +0100 on 07/18/2003, Kathryn Cawte wrote about 
[HPforGrownups] Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and Slyt:

>Well the reason I said I was discussing the years when Harry is there is
>because we have no way of knowing how they won the cup in those years, but I
>d say that winning the Quidditch Cup for so many years had something to do
>with it since the scores in that seem to have quite a lot of weight where
>the house Cup is concerned.And Quidditch is the one area in which there
>seems to be no prejudice of any kind, it's decided ourely on skill.

Given they way we've seen them play (ie: Cheat), I'd say that their 
Quidditch wins were more due to unsportsmanlike behavior than 
outplaying their opponents. An unbeaten school team that I can 
compare them with (for the same reasons) is the Field Hockey Team 
from St. Trinian.

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Bob Rosenberg