Slytherin's behavior at the GoF final feast (was Re: Dumbledore's awarding of points PS/SS)

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 57104

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, heidi tandy <heidit at n...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- darrin_burnett <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> > 
> > Tell me, when the coach asked you to foul, did you
> > just wrap the 
> > person up to get the foul called or did you hit the
> > person over the 
> > head and then try to tell the ref you thought the
> > player's head was 
> > the ball? My guess is the first, since basketball
> > has the technical 
> > foul rule, so if you get too out-of-hand, you won't
> > get the ball back.

 Heidi replied:
 
> You're applying Muggle "rules" and concepts of injury
> to the wizarding world, which is a little unfair to
> do, as they clearly don't and can't see injuries to
> things like arms in the same way we do. I mean, if you
> knew that breaking someone's arm would result in a few
> unplesant minutes with some medicine, would you have
> as much of a compunction against breaking it, or would
> it be considered, in your world, to be closer to the
> equal of a bruise? 

 Me(Linda):

      I havn't played many sports in my time. ( I was always on the 
sidelines, playing in the pep band.) But it seems to me that intent 
to injure is intent to injure, no matter how serious or not the 
injury may be. There is just something inherantly wrong in the 
intent. As comparison, let's look at Oliver Wood. He was, especially 
in PoA, obsessed with winning the quiditch cup. He even told Harry 
to "catch the snitch or die trying". But. Wood would never even 
consider any of the tactics that the Slytherin's used in the 
championship match. No matter how much he wanted that cup, he wanted 
it fair and square. That makes all the difference.

- Linda