Dumbledore's awarding of points PS/SS

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 56959

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Heidi Tandy" <heidit at n...> 
wrote:
> Megalynn wrote:
> ** If he had just given 
> the points in private the impact would have been much less for not 
just the 
> Slytherins, but the entire school.**

 Heidi replied: 

> True, but if he had given the points at any time in the days 
prior, it would have been much less humiliating for the Slytherins, 
who were enough ahead that even if Harry, Hermione and Neville 
hadn't lost points the night of the dragon incident, Slytherin 
would've still been tops. 

Linda:

       It's true that Slytherin would have been on top even if 
Gryfindor still had the 150 points that HHR lost with Norbert. I 
believe this was mentioned in an earlier post at well but I can't 
recall by whom. Anyway, there is one factor involved that I havn't 
seen addressed. If HHR had not gone to retreive the sourceror's / 
philosopher's stone how many points could they possibly gotten from 
the last quidditch match of the season. In the aftermath of 
theirlittle adventure Harry was unconcious in the hospital wing and 
therefore missed the last qudditch match of the season. Paraphrasing 
SS-You missed the last match of the season and we got flattened 
without you. I realize that this doesn't address the way in which DD 
awarded the points but I think that it does relate to the amount of 
points given. 

 -Linda