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[bowlwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 57563

"koticzka" <koticzka at w...> wrote:

> 3) Yes. Very noble - to add points for Gryffindor at the very end. 
> Bravo, Headmaster! What an example  for youngsters! Was he Gryff? 
> No? he seems to favour them, don't he? For the balance with weaker 
> Snape, of course.

I always felt that Dumbledore gave the points to the trio (and 
Neville) at the Final Feast in PS/SS to "give back" the ones that 
McGonagall took away when they were caught in the Norbert fiasco.   I 
don't think he did it solely for Gryffindor to win the house cup or 
to favor them.  

Many people on the board believe that DD is an all-knowing, all-
seeing headmaster (various theories on exactly how abound, but I 
digress).  If so, doesn't it stand to reason that he KNEW what was 
going on with Hagrid and the dragon egg?  Doesn't is also stand to 
reason that he KNEW that the trio was trying to help get Hagrid out 
of trouble and that they didn't once implicate him in an illegal 
activity?  Draco did, but McGonagall didn't believe him.  In order to 
save their skins, HH could have ratted Hagrid out.  But they didn't 
and had to face the consequences.  Yet in spite of their loyalty and 
bravery, what do HH (and Neville as an innocent bystander) get for 
their troubles?  150 points taken away, detention in the Forbidden 
Forest and being outcasts everywhere they turn.  

I think DD was not only rewarding them for saving the WW from the re-
rise of an immortal VM with the stone, I think he was also giving 
them back their dignity that was lost because they did a good thing 
to help out a friend.

Just my 2 knuts.

bowlwoman