OOP: Who won the house championship (was Re: OOP: more nagging questions)

[erniemu03]

No: HPFGUIDX 63807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chthonia9" 
<chthonicdancer at h...> wrote:
> 
> Michael: 
> > > 2. Any idea who won the house championship?
> > > 
> 
> Grey Wolf:
> 
> > Probably Slytherin, since all the other houses were devoid of 
> points by 
> > the inquisitorial squad. Gryffindor recieves 240 points at the 
end, but 
> > that wouldn't have been enough to win the competition the first 
year, 
> > so I doubt it would be enough this year either.
> 
> Me:
> 
> Can you honestly imagine Dumbledore allowing Slytherin to win on 
the 
> basis of the Inquisatorial Squad's bullying, especially after what 
he 
> did at the end of PS/SS?  Although perhaps he might see this unjust 
> victory as a balance to that one...
> 
> I reckon either he cancelled it, or there were a lot of other 
> retrospective additions and subtractions at the feast.  
> 
> As to the final result, I have no idea.
> 
> Chthonia


I almost felt that JKR was trying to make a statement about the lack 
of importance of the house cup to Harry.  The appearance of those 
house hourglasses was a nice addition at this point, but Harry didn't 
seem as concerned with the total lack of points as he might have in 
years past.  Along those lines, I don't think he was as stricken by 
the Quidditch ban either.  When that happened, I really thought we 
would spend a lot of time missing Quidditch and being bitter, but it 
was almost as if Harry knew there were more important things.  Maybe 
a sign of his growing maturity...  However, I have only read through 
once, so I may have let the PLOT drown out minor details ;).  Any 
thoughts?

-Erin (who is giving up on the reading of all new posts, and has 
settled on only the last several hundreds... maybe)