Bill's Teacher Ratings

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No: HPFGUIDX 56732

Kathryn Cawte:

Ron and Harry were *incredibly* lucky not to have been killed along 
with Hermione when they tackled the troll themselves - not to mention 
Hermione wouldn't have been trapped in a room with it if they hadn;t 
locked it in - although McGonagall doesn't know that last bit. 
Frankly I think she was ridiculously generous to give them points at 
all. I'm sure she only did it because she felt that their experience 
was punishment enough (which it wasnt considering it does nothing to 
stop them from carrying on with their risky behaviour). What they 
should have dones when they found out Hermione was missing was tell 
Percy (as the prefect in charge) and get him to get some staff help - 
or at least let the more experience prefects try and deal with it. If 
I were mcGonagall I'd have been *taking* points after the troll 
incident not handing them out - and great handfuls of points at that. 
But then I'm one of those people who wouldn't have handed out points 
to them for going after the PS at the end either - would have given 
Neville the points though.

Me:

It is true that Harry and Ron were lucky to survive the troll.  But I 
would like to make two points.  One, they were not searching for the 
troll, they simply wanted to retrieve Hermione.  When they saw the 
troll, they tried locking it in an empty room and going for help, 
without knowing that the room was the very one that Hermione was in.  
I do not think that they can be blamed for that.  Remember that they 
are eleven years old, in a stressful situation, trying to do their 
best.  Once they realised that Hermione was trapped in the room with 
the troll, they had no choice if they wanted her to survive.  It 
would have taken far too much time to find a Prefect or Professor and 
bring them back, they had to try to subdue the troll themselves.

Two, I want to point out that if they had done as you suggest, and 
informed Percy, who would then (eventually) find and inform a 
Professor, who would (eventually) go to the girl's bathroom, it would 
have been too late.  Even with Harry and Ron heading straight to the 
bathroom, they barely made it in time.  Telling Percy would have been 
the 'correct' action, but Hermione would have likely died.

Bill